Audio not playing on Safari

[Great-Bucket]

Hi, Thank you for the HAL. I want to use it to play a background sound across a series of Twine/Harlowe pages without the sound restarting on each new page. Your library works fine to do this with Chrome, Opera and Firefox, I cannot play any sound with your system using Safari.

Mac OS 10.15.7
Safari 14.0

I tested it by writing my own page and using your demo (https://twinelab.net/harlowe-audio/demo/) where neither the beeps nor the background music will play.

I am able to play sound with this same Safari browser from other websites such as https://www.zombo.com (which I believe is using the HTML5 tags to play the music - but of course this will not play the sound across different pages).

Is this a known issue? Or something maybe specific to my system? Is there any workaround?

Thanks for your time & help!

update: I tested with Safari on iOS and that plays the sound just fine.

[ChapelR]

Needs repro