Web Playback SDK not playing sound on first invocation of Play API

[muusic3]

When invoking the Play API to start playing, the Web Playback will receive play status OK but no sound will be played.
After invoking the Pause API and then the Play API to resume playing, then the play will start from beginning and with sound.
The error seems to be happening only when a new device id is generated,
the Web Playback is working well when using a device id for which there has already been at least one play/pause/resume sequence.
If needed, I can provide the sample calls with CURL to reproduce the issue.

[muusic3]

Having a closer look on the web browser (Chrome) console, the issue seems to be related to the following error:

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The AudioContext was not allowed to start. It must be resumed (or created) after a user gesture on the page. https://goo.gl/7K7WLu

The Web Playback connect method is invoked on load of the page, hence before user interactions with the page itself...any suggestions on when to call connect or on how to the prevent this error?

[muusic3 · Accepted solution]

Just found the solution to this issue here:

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/reference/#api-spotify-player-activatee...

[spotifyjosh]

Thanks for updating the thread with the solution you found, @muusic3 🙂

[Squall75]

Thank you, this resolved a similar issue I was having on my app. 

[muusic3]

@Squall75 beware that this might still not working for Safari, in case, check this out too: 

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Web-Playback-SDK-Playing-song-directly-in-br...

[tufik2]

Now it is not working in:

MacOS: Ventura 13.3.1+

IOS: 16.4.1+