Thanks for the quick reply 🙂
Yes, I'm playing on my PC with the latest patch installed.
My system specs (my dad says they shoudn't be problematic, but we both aren't 100% experts on this):
System: Windows 8.1, 64 Bit
Intel Core i7-4770 CPU 3.40 GHz
16 GB Ram
AMD Radeon R9 200 series
It might indeed be bugs that occured because of my playstyle at some point. I used to do a lot of fast traveling and left the war table several times without picking a location to travel to. Someone on reddit wrote the "no music" bug happens in combination with the war table.
About the banter: It's not like I never hear them, just very rarely (less than once in an hour). One time Cole and Varric started to talk about something and a guard interrupted them to tell me there's nothing he can report me right now (so lame!). But shouldn't there be some banter every 15-20 minutes? My party changes only after my inventory is full and I'm forced to travel back to Skyhold. I don't fast travel anymore at all during exploration, since I hoped that would fix at least the music bug. Do battles or comments from my character also interrupt the banter and music? Like if I spam "V" to find objects and she says "There should be something important here"?
I also noticed today, during Celene's rescue mission, after I talked to Morrigan the first time, the music played non-stop on all areas. But as soon as the mission was over and I visited Syhold and after that Val Royeux, no music again. And if I remember correctly, during Hushed Whispers, there was also background music for way longer than a few seconds. Is there a method to set the priority of banter and music higher? Those two places seemed to have the perfect settings for this issue.