Yeah, it’ll be autostart = false with buttons.
Thanks for the iframe suggestion, but this foray was unsuccessful.
I dubiously tried the iframe thing hoping that magick would take over and inextricably solve the problem, but my initial doubts were correct. Iframing the music portion does nothing but force the browser to fetch the music data in a roundabout fashion. Clicking a link on the outside page (content not in the iframe) leads me away from the page, breaking the music yet again.
If only I could find a way to iframe the rest of the page excluding the music..
Actually, I just went to https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_iframe to mess with an iframe and.. Apparently my initial assumption, that links inside an iframe load within the iframe, is dead wrong. Iframes might have worked if this were the case, but as it is not..
I need another method for tackling this problem.