My question is similar to this one: How to make audio autoplay on chrome
...although most of the answers on that fail today or rely on tricks that will inevitably be fixed in the future. However, in my scenario, I have an additional advantage - I only need this to work on one specific machine on a specific page (just an auto-refreshing dashboard page), so I'm open to command line parameters or even other browsers that might allow me to override autoplay policies.
There's also this answer: Chrome Autoplay Policy - Chrome 76
...and someone suggested this:
google-chrome-stable --kiosk http://google.com/ --new-window --start-maximized --incognito --autoplay-policy=no-user-gesture-required --disable-features=PreloadMediaEngagementData,AutoplayIgnoreWebAudio,MediaEngagementBypassAutoplayPolicies &
...however that doesn't seem to work anymore (I adjusted the initial command from "google-chrome-stable" to the "chrome.exe" executable on my test machine). The desired page loads up just fine but it doesn't autoplay the audio until I interact with it (e.g. manually refresh the page) to provide that user gesture. Once I provide a user gesture, audio autoplays fine.
I'm even open to building a simple custom C# browser app with CefSharp (I have a couple of those already), but none of the suggested solutions work with that, either. It seems like everything I find is referencing an older version.
Any suggestions for this situation in 2021 which isn't something that could be seen as an exploitable workaround (e.g. Javascript triggering a click) that would probably be fixed in a near future build of browsers?
