Playing sound from INACTIVE browser tab

Question

I have a control panel for restaurants and it plays an alert sound when an order is given. The problem is that when the control panel tab is not the active tab in Chrome (it

Answer 1

There's also the possibility that the audio wouldn't play because of browsers Autoplay policy.

For example, in Chrome the audio won't play until the user actively click the web page.

you may find the full list here: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes