Audio playback stops when safari unfocused on ios

[Codigo-Fuentes]

Describe the bug
Audio playback stops when safari unfocused on ios. If i use a regular tag it keeps playing in the background when i unfocus safari. this is what i expect and want.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. load a song
2. play it
3. unfocus safari

Expected behavior
Audio keeps playing on unfocus.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Browser/ browser version: safari ios 17.3.1
• Library version: 2.2.0
• React version: 18.2.0
• Node version: 21.1.0

[E-Kuerschner]

Hi @Codigo-Fuentes thanks for opening the issue. I don't think I'll be able to get around to triaging this any time soon (feel free to take a look and open a PR if you want to take a stab at it!), but can I ask how you are loading the sound? I think you may need to load with the html5 option set to true. The media session API only works with HTML5 elements, not the Web Audio API which Howler uses by default.