Header gear (beside the keyboard icon) opens a 'Player settings'
popover — one option row today, structured for more: 'Autoplay on
open', a role=switch toggle persisted to localStorage audio_autoplay
('1'/'0', default off) via the normalizeAutoplay one-source helper.
maybeAutoplay() runs strictly AFTER restorePosition resolves: the
?loc=audio:<seconds> deep link keeps winning on position; the setting
only decides whether playback starts. A browser autoplay-policy
rejection (or any play() failure) is swallowed silently — the user
just taps play; the unhandled-rejection trap in init would otherwise
shout 'REJ:' into the title. settingsOpen joins closeTopSurface, so
Esc closes the panel with the other surfaces.
Unit: normalizeAutoplay tests. Live: 13 Playwright checks — default
off stays paused, toggle + persistence, reload autoplays with no
gesture, deep link lands at 600s global while autoplay starts, off
stays paused, and a stubbed NotAllowedError proves the silent
swallow; probe user created and deleted.
John O'Keefe
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