Issue
Chrome is no longer automatically playing songs when a tab is in the background. Some songs do still play automatically.
The songs do play automatically if the current song is from YouTube and the next song is from YouTube as well. But if the current song is from SoundCloud and the next one is from YouTube you will still need to place the tab in focus to play the next song.
Solutions
This is not the case in Safari and Firefox on desktop so in the meantime I'll advise you to use those.
You can now disable this feature on Chrome here:
- Copy paste this in your address bar:
chrome://flags/#disable-gesture-requirement-for-media-playback - Click on Enable