Audio & rewind in HTML5, Captivate 6

This is the situation. I start playing the project. The audio for the slide commences. Then hitting the Rewind button, the project navigates back to the first slide. However, the audio does not rewind. The audio starts playing where it left off.
Does anyone know a cure for this? (The audio works fine with the Play/Pause button; the problem only happens with Rewind.)

Didn't try it out, but is my workaround on slides where the Interaction widgets pause the audio. Since you talk about HTML5 export, it is not possible to use Object audio, but I think the new commands Play audio and Stop triggered audio will do well:
Identify the audio clips in the Library
Set up an (advanced) action to play that clip On Enter for the slide
Delete the slide audio
Try to find a way to stop the audio (if the playhead reaches the last frame of the slide, you can use the On Exit event of the slide, if you have a Next button, use that one to stop the audio clip
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