Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26845310-20150811184210/@comment-26871289-20150823053307

Dropping Audio tracks is definitely a problem. And the problem definitely seems correlated to island population, which makes me think it's memory related as well.

You would think it's related to the number of unique monsters (and therefore unique tracks) that are present, but in my experimentation this is not so. Rather, it seems to occur when the total number of monsters goes beyond a certain threshold. Though it may actually be there's a total number of monsters (not necessarily unique) singing at one time that cannot be exceeded. Regardless, you're most likely to experience issues when you have a large number of monsters on your island. Gold and Ethereal islands certainly are succeptible to exceeding the threshold. Also if you choose to have lots of single or double element monsters on the other islands then you can exceed it too.

If you want to regain the whole song with all its parts intact, you can start muting some of the duplicate monsters on the troublesome island(s). You don't have to mute them all, just enough to make the whole song stable and reliable. If it's a certain monster that's dropping out, it may be helpful to observe what other monsters are singing at that time. Then you can target the duplicates of those monsters to hopefully bring back the one that's dropping out.

I hesitate to call this a cure, because your are trading off the audio for the visual. That is while the song comes back, now you have to look at a bunch of snoring monsters and all the annoying zzz's they make. And turning a duplicate's volume down to zero is not a substiture for muting when addressing this problem.

It's not clear to me whether the game's memory handling is not designed to handle islands with lots of monsters or whether older devices just plain run out of available memory. Either way, I wish BBB would mix in one of each unique monster before mixing in the duplicates. While you might lose the extra volume that duplicates are intended to provide, at least the whole song would be present. And there wouldn't be the unsettling visual of a monster with laryngitis.