Quicktime no longer starts playing automatically

For some reason, all of my Macs have stopped playing files on open, I have to manually start it. The setting in the QT preferences is unchanged and unchecking and checking again later has no impact on the behaviour.
So, while I am not sure what has caused this I wonder if there's some way I can get it to play files again on open....maybe some clever command line or so?
Thanks in advance!

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