Possible to still play email sounds with media.autoplay.default set to anything except 0?

[Avrution]

Finally had enough of all the auto play videos and went about disabling them in about:config. Noticed my email notifications stopped playing sound.

Determined the key "media.autoplay.default" being set to anything except 0 caused the problem. Hard to decide between annoying autoplaying videos and no longer being notified about new emails when my laptop is closed.

Is there a workaround by chance?

This is in Firefox/Waterfox