SureAI

During the quest "The Brotherhood of the Kor", white noise started playing in background. At first I thought it's a sound effect on the Isle of Kor, but it occurs also after its completion, in other locations as well.

Music plays well, but at the same time there is this noise/hum.

And no, it's not a waterfall/crickets sound, just plain white noise.

I have previously encountered the "disappearing music" bug, but I resolved it with this mod: http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/83073 .

I am asking for help, because the game is unplayable for me this way.

Does that help?

Load your savegame, open up the ingame console and type in the following:

removemusic _00E_SilenceLongTransitionHighPriority

close the console

Unless could you upload a savegame?
found in ..\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves.
We'll need the skse and the ess of a manual (no quick- or auto-) save.
Pack them to a rar or zip archive and attach them to a post here

found something that sounds somewhat promising

[+] where to find

right click on the volume icon in the taskbar
- >playback devices or something;
(where you can adjust the properties of your speaker)
in the "Advanced" - Tab

bit strange that it would appear that suddenly though

I loaded the game today and the suddenly there is no problem anymore.

It appears that the solution to the problem is a simple restart, but AFTER leaving the Isle of Kor. Previously, I was restarting the game while on the Isle and it didn't work. That's why I assumed restarting doesn't work.