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Try this...
Add an optional script property to your audio slide show page and set it to Every time page is viewed.
Add the following script:
setTimeout(function(){
$('.mejs-button.mejs-playpause-button.mejs-play').click();
}, 500);

There's probably a better way to do that but that's just a quick suggestion and seems to work.

Do you have a link to the Durham manual. As far as I can tell there has not been an auto-start in the audioslideShow for quite a while now. (I went back to 3.8)

community.dur.ac.uk/lt.team/wp-content/u...o_Slideshow_v3.5.pdf

The script works just fine. Thanks!

I am happy that Ron's solution works for you :-)

For the record:
There has never been an auto-play option for the Audio Slide Show. What you see in the manual is the 3,5 version of the Audio Slide Show, and then there was no clear separation between page specific optional properties and general optional properties. Also grouping of optional properties did not exist yet. So, what you see on the screen shot is the sam auto-plau I indicated for you. It's the autoplay of the narration.