Chrome can't loop a sound unless it's cached?

I'm using the SoundManager2 library but the same happened before with HTML5 audio. The looping works in Firefox and local Chrome and remote Chrome when the audio is cached -- but it doesn't work with the remote deployed version in Chrome (whereas in Firefox it's fine). I've tried various onfinish, loops, or loopSound(mySound) and so on, but it always breaks in Chrome when loading from a remote server.