Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I have a couple of cards with multiple audio recordings - mostly one with the vocabulary and then a bunch of example sentences. While I prefer to have the sole vocabulary to be read-out, having auto-play of all sentences is just annoyin…

An alternative implementation has additional attributes for [sound:] and [anki:tts][/anki:tts], which could be used to specify whether the sound should be played automatically or not.

Actually in both cases I’m using [sound:…] with my own generated audio files so I’m not sure that would help. Having actually control on per-field basis seems reasonable (and still - you may want to autoplay some sound and some tts tags still…

Uhm… other threads: Automatically play audio of specified fields Is there any way to set autoplay at the field level? Disabling audio autoplay for certain fields (with hacky workaround) I would REALLY appreciate having this as an option. Currently, having sound in example sentences makes using An…

I think we want very similar things here, some way to selectively turn off autoplay. [image] Turn off auto-play for hidden elements Suggestions Anki’s auto-play feature plays all audio files in a card, including the ones that have been hidden. Is it possible t…

Yeah, kinda similar. Though I think your case is somewhat more complex. Would having per-field configuration option work in your case?

A better solution is per file configuration.

But how would you decide on that? Without too much hassle? In my case - I add audio using AwesomeTTS plugin, which inserts [sound:…] tag. How would you like to handle that? You mentioned using special attributed on divs for example, but IMHO that while it may give you a lot of flexibility it’s not …

If you want user-friendlyness you can have something like [no-play:sound: ] but divs of course are more flexible as you can make template changes with it. And also disable auto-play on whole fields.

I just thought of a (potentially) better option! Two custom field prefixes like {{mute:Audio}} and {{autoplay:Audio}}. The former is self explanatory. The latter would be require that: It auto plays even if “Don’t play audio automatically” is enabled. It would autoplay that particular field and w…

This does not work with tts and individual audio files. Ideally, have a special class instead. {{Audio}} {{Audio}} [sound: ] [sound: ] {{tts…

Per field audio autoplay (again…)

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sorata June 23, 2025, 12:57pm 5

I think we want very similar things here, some way to selectively turn off autoplay.

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