Quote Originally Posted by Packetdancer View Post
FWIW, this is a long-standing issue since long before Endwalker. It is also annoying as heck, and really needs to be fixed, but it's not a new issue -- nor, in all likelihood, directly connected to the weird stuttering audio that is new to Endwalker.
Some of us have had success switching audio in Windows (NOT in the game engine) to avoid a complete restart of the game.

This fixed it for me when inexplicably my sound effects track went out mid dungeon, but the music kept playing. I switched the Windows audio output from my headphones to speakers, then switched it back, and the sound effects returned.