fix(android): music player starts on its own and no longer shows autoplay refusals

WebView now allows play() after the track fetch; a NotAllowedError leaves
the track waiting for the play button instead of raising an error.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/packages/meshbay-android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/meshbay/client/MainActivity.kt b/packages/meshbay-android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/meshbay/client/MainActivity.kt
index a781350..ea31bca 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/meshbay/client/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/packages/meshbay-android/app/src/main/kotlin/org/meshbay/client/MainActivity.kt
@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ class MainActivity : Activity() {
             domStorageEnabled = true            // IndexedDB and localStorage: session, resume positions
             allowFileAccess = false
             allowContentAccess = false
-            mediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture = true
+            // The page is our own bundled UI. With `true`, WebView wants play() inside the tap
+            // handler itself, and the music player only calls it after fetching the track.
+            mediaPlaybackRequiresUserGesture = false
             setSupportMultipleWindows(false)
             mixedContentMode = android.webkit.WebSettings.MIXED_CONTENT_NEVER_ALLOW
         }
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/music-player.js b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/music-player.js
index e8124fa..154d761 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/music-player.js
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/static/music-player.js
@@ -459,6 +459,9 @@ function MusicPlayerBar({ getConnection, queue, onClose, userPrefs, onSaveQueue
         prefetchNext(pos);
       } catch (err) {
         if (loadTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
+        // Autoplay refused (no recent tap): the track is loaded and fine, it
+        // waits for the play button. Not an error, and no reason to skip it.
+        if (err && err.name === 'NotAllowedError') { setPlaying(false); prefetchNext(pos); return; }
         setError(err.message || String(err));
         setPlaying(false);
         // `fetchTrackBlob` throws `err_transport` when no node answered for
@@ -524,7 +527,7 @@ function MusicPlayerBar({ getConnection, queue, onClose, userPrefs, onSaveQueue
     const audio = audioRef.current;
     if (!audio) return;
     if (playing) { audio.pause(); setPlaying(false); }
-    else { audio.play().then(() => setPlaying(true)).catch(() => {}); }
+    else { audio.play().then(() => { setError(''); setPlaying(true); }).catch(() => {}); }
   }, [playing]);
 
   // Reshuffling keeps the currently playing track in place — turning shuffle