User blog comment:Klonoamiyumi/Announcement about Forced Audio on userpages/@comment-10269581-20130707162721/@comment-5691231-20130707212925

Well for one point, you could be listening to a song already then when you visit someones profile it becomes a serious pain in the ass to your ears. The first thing that comes to mind is "shut it off" but the lags prevent that. Also we may not want to mute our computers because we could be in chat and may want to hear our pings