It looks like this was originally a bug you ran into back in 2015 when working on threading (bug 6262 here on ministry)

It seems to have returned at some point, affecting Valve's Proton 8 and Proton 9, and Codeweaver's Crossover wine variants. I do not know when this came back, as I have not played in a very long time and was looking to play again.

Audio does not play, and the debug log contains the MCI error:

024-07-26 12:47:28 Transcendence 1.9.2
2024-07-26 12:47:29 [140] MCI ERROR ProcessPlay MCIWndOpen [TranscendenceIntro.mp3]: Invalid MCI device ID. Use the ID returned when opening the MCI device.
2024-07-26 12:47:29 Loading news.
2024-07-26 12:47:32 All resources downloaded.
2024-07-26 12:48:31 Loading user collection.
2024-07-26 12:48:33 Downloaded: CacheCorporateCommand.tdb
2024-07-26 12:48:59 Downloaded: CacheCorporateHierarchyVol01.tdb
2024-07-26 12:48:59 Replaced extension: CollectionCorporateCommand.tdb
2024-07-26 12:48:59 Downloaded: CacheDebugPart1.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:01 Downloaded: CacheEternityPort.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:37 Downloaded: CacheNearStarsVol01.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:37 Replaced extension: CollectionEternityPort.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:37 Downloaded: CacheOPS_ExtOsaka.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:39 Downloaded: CacheOPS_LibResOsaka.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:39 Replaced extension: CollectionOPS_ExtOsaka.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:41 Downloaded: CacheStarsOfThePilgrimHD.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:41 Downloaded: CacheStarsOfThePilgrimSoundtrack.tdb
2024-07-26 12:49:41 All downloads complete.
2024-07-26 12:49:41 All resources downloaded.
2024-07-26 12:50:44 Loading user collection.
2024-07-26 12:50:45 All resources downloaded.
2024-07-26 12:51:09 End logging session