Battle music starts over if leaving the main game screen

Chow

This has always been a problem for me, ever since the first Baldur's Gate was first installed to my computer more than a decade ago. Whenever I would open up an inventory screen in combat, or check out someone's stats or what spells they had memorized, when I returned to the game, the battle music would stop, then start over. I could never tell if this is how it was supposed to be, but it was always pretty annoying and I would like to see it fixed.

BGEE restarts the music much faster, almost immediately, but it still restarts it. Couldn't it keep going from where it was?