How to automatically mute tabs with audio files in Chrome

The automatic playback of audio files on Chrome will in many cases bring inconvenience to you. In the following article, I will guide you how to Automatically mute audio file tabs on Chrome

Google Chrome is one of the most widely used web browsers on mobile and desktop operating systems. It includes a lot of attractive and useful features. Furthermore, Chrome also comes with support for extensions. Extensions allow users to customize Chrome features according to their individual needs.

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Chrome extensions can be downloaded for free. Smart Mute is one of those extensions. Smart Mute makes it possible for users to mute Chrome's video tabs.

Smart Mute is used when you have multiple videos open and do not want all videos to play over each other. You can also automatically mute audio tabs by turning on Chrome's smart auto-mute without having to download any supported apps. To do this, please follow the steps below.

Step 1: Open the Google Chrome browser on your device

Step 2: After opening Chrome, type "Chrome: // flags" in the URL bar and press enter.

Step 3: Look for the "Audio Focus Enforcement" option. Please turn this option on

Step 4: Turn on the option "Media-session-service"

Step 5: Click "Relaunch Now" button

After performing the above steps, your Chrome will automatically mute the tabs containing audio files, the sound will only be turned on when you click on those audio files.