Audio issues

I have been using audio using a custom button on my slides.  This has worked well for me so far.  I am exploring now using the player function instead and am running into major issues. I set a trigger to pause media when the timeline starts on a slide as I don't want pause my entrance animations as well.  However, this seems to glitch the player - when the slide starts, the play button flashes then the pause button comes on and then I can't play the audio at all. If I set the trigger to either pause the timeline when the timeline starts or set a trigger to play media when the timeline starts everything functions as it should.  I am completely stumped!