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Comment by duiker101 | Hacker News Reader

automatic music, no stop or volume button immediatly in line of sight, closed. I am sorry from that glance i gave it looked good but the music totally killed it for me.

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cannot upvote this hard enough

Opened a bunch of links on a slow connection, suddenly some moments later one is playing audio! Even with javascript disabled :(

Does anyone remember that chrome extension that found which tab out of 100 is playing audio? Was it MuteTab?

It was MuteTab :)

Valid points. FWIW, you can click anywhere on the iPhone to pause the video (and music, for that matter). We should probably make this clearer.

You should probably not automatically play audio. Or, if you must have audio, don't automatically play the video.

I'd suggest never automatically playing music. I always imagine the user just watched a youtube video with really low volume.

I don't want a clearer way to stop the audio, I want it to not start unless I ask for it. I honestly can't see any reason to have auto-playing audio on a web page unless that's the entire purpose of the page (audio or video player) or you're purposefully annoying people.

I don't know if there's speech (my audio is off), but I understood exactly what it did without audio.

Okay, we hear ya. Pushing an update of the video sans music in a little bit.

Thanks for the fix. It was very surprising at work, and equally surprising, but pleasant, to hear silence at home.

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