How many players actually listen to the music in AVNs?

I can’t imagine listening to my AVNs without music, it usually elevates the mood of each scene in such a way. It has been extremely rare for me to be distracted rather than enlightened by the music. I even prefer music to ambient sounds if I had to select one over the other

I only mute the music if they use the same song over and over or if the placement of the songs have no impact and it's just background noise.

I told this story many times 😋. I used to play my AVNs on mute, BUT after playing SG… it opened my eyes to how much the music enhanced the AVNs 🤦🏻‍♂️ (which is weird because I LOVE music in my video games: Dragon Age Origins, Dynasty Warriors, Resident Evil, Skyrim, Fallout, Final Fantasy, and other JRPGs). Now, I play AVNs with music/SFX on. AND I have created a playlist featuring music from AVNs. AND they have become some of my most played songs (from SG, BAD, BW, and BT, to name a few of the AVNs).

I have music I can listen too, and I find a lot of music in AVN's just has this impersonalized, generic sound to it. I'd rather developers invest their money into their product in other ways, having seen the price and impact that comes with music licensing affect development of game. (See Leap of Faith, as well as BADIK or Summers Gone). For me at least, it's like... would you like to see an update with 18 scenes, never taking place in the same environment, with the generic music everybody mutes, or do you want maybe 3 overpriced songs and the entire update is split between haven park, i13 Clothing Boutique, and Cafe Luca. IMHO

That depends. Some games I always listen to the music, as you can tell that the songs are placed with purpose. They are there to amplify the mood, and I feel I would be missing out if I turned it off. Others, where it’s just the same melody or two repeating, I put on my own music instead. So these are equivalent to silent games for me.

Music adds A LOT for me personally. Even just standard free use tracks that roughly fit the mood of a scene make q big difference. Silent games are hard for me to play.