So finally being to properly enjoy Evening Starter,
as it turns out I didn't get music probably because of some bizarre codec compatibility issue
the weirdest thing, recently on Arch they migrate from the usually wine64/32 bins to wineWoW which is only 64b
the game was crashing soon after start though, migrating back to traditional wine can get the game running
HOWEVER, wine32 pooped out on playing the mp3s and doing that it ended up getting stuck for several seconds whenever a new file was supposed to be played, which is quite often in this game
the funny thing is that playing the game with wine64 apparently got it running perfectly, go figure...