title: How to bypass Chrome disabling autoplay of video's in background tabs
body: <p>my friends and I are making a website that acts like a radio station called Musare with playlists of YouTube videos that play after each other.</p>
  
  <p>Recently Chrome introduced a new 'feature' that automatically disables autoplaying of videos in background tabs with no option to turn this off. This breaks our site because users don't want to keep going back to the site to start a song. This also broke other big sites, like YouTube playlists, Facebook chat notification sound and a lot of music sharing sites.</p>
  
  <p>By now, a lot of sites have found solutions to bypass this, like dubtrack.fm, YouTube, Facebook and probably some other sites as well.</p>
  
  <p>There is someone working on making an option for it at <a href="https://codereview.chromium.org/1414853003/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://codereview.chromium.org/1414853003/</a>, but that might take weeks or even months for it to be in the main Google Chrome.</p>
  
  <p>If anyone knows how to bypass this, please let me know. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance :)</p>
  
  <h2>Already tried:</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Starting another video before the current one ends - no success</li>
  <li>Messing around with the Player Variables - no success</li>
  <li>Other things probably - no success</li>
  </ul>
  
  <h2>Extra notes:</h2>
  
  <ul>
  <li>We are using the YouTube API. We use YT.Player and the youtubePlayer.loadVideoById(id)</li>
  <li>SoundCloud streaming works fine with SC.Stream.</li>
  <li>The source code for our project is at <a href="https://github.com/Musare/Musare" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Musare/Musare</a></li>
  </ul>