NativePlayer.play() ignores the play() promise — autoplay-blocked leaves paused=false and a zombie polling loop

[maboa]

Summary

(As of v2.6.2.) hyperaudio-lite.js:64-67:

play() {
  this.player.play();
  this.paused = false;
}

HTMLMediaElement.play() returns a promise that rejects (NotAllowedError) under autoplay policy. The rejection is unhandled, and this.paused is set false while the element remains paused — no pause event will ever fire to correct it. checkStatus then sees !paused and re-arms its timer forever against a static currentTime: a perpetual poll on a player that isn't playing, with stale internal state. (Triggered via playOnClick: true, the library default.)

Fix

this.player.play().catch(() => { this.paused = true; }), or derive paused solely from the play/pause events already wired in attachEventListeners.

Found reviewing the copy vendored in hyperaudio-lite-editor / GliderMac (2026-07-11).