Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create <audio> element
2. Attach event listeners to audio element
3. Canplay, etc. are not fired until play() has been called

What is the expected behavior?
Canplay, canplaythrough, loadeddata, loadedmetadata, timeupdate, durationchange, etc should fire before play() has been called on the object.

What went wrong?
The only events fired are emptied, timeupdate and loadstart. emptied and timeupdate are not fired on all players though.

With 4 audio elements (numbered 0-3) in a page, this looks like follows:

emptied player-1
timeupdate player-1
emptied player-3
timeupdate player-3
emptied player-0
timeupdate player-0
loadstart player-2
loadstart player-1
loadstart player-3
loadstart player-0

You'll notice that for some reason, no emptied or timeupdate events are fired on player-2.
After this, no further events are fired on the element, until play() is called on the element, at which point all events are fired that should have taken place before:

click button-3
durationchange player-3
loadedmetadata player-3
loadeddata player-3
canplay player-3
canplaythrough player-3
durationchange player-3
timeupdate player-3

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.91  Channel: stable
OS Version: 8.1.0
Flash Version: