only when i went from one tab to another with sound, or loaded a page with sound that the browder didn’t open on, or went to another page, then the sound would not play anymore, and i didn’t understand the problem.
All other sound worked fine in all other browsers and the computer itself. My problem was that, if i opened chrome on a page with sound, it would play fine, but if i went to another page or reloaded that page, the sound would stop playing. go to “App volume and device preferences” and make sure all of your chrome is set to screen you want, and not trying to play out of a device that is no longer hooked up to the computer slash shifted back to default with the last update. If you had a secondary or tertiary computer screen that played audio, and you made it so that sound comes through that screen, then you either do not have that screen anymore or something shifted around in the updates.