Safari audio doesn’t auto play audio when screen is locked

I have been working on a private audio streaming website not unlike SoundCloud, both my website and SoundCloud were working fine before the update. However now that I have updated both sites do not auto play the next song, the metadata gets set but quickly disappears and the audio does not play. I find this unusual because this happens not only in safari but on chrome and DuckDuckGo (apps), but their brother desktop apps do not exhibit the same behavior.

it is important to note that the audio WILL auto play the next song when the device is locked.