Timeline de-syncs with audio on Android

I have a project where several Timeline-d scenes play under a single piece of music, making a music video of sorts. I'm having a problem with it on Android that I haven't seen on Windows or WebGL running on a desktop.

There's a main "start" timeline that plays a song and loads and unloads scenes containing more timelines and animation using activation tracks. Unfortunately, on Android, the music starts playing, but the first scene does not seem to be loaded yet. The animation winds up offset from the music by the load time. Interestingly, if I leave the app and come back (lock screen or task switcher for example) things are then synced.

I figured this is just part of mobile reality and I have to work around if possible. I've had some ideas for fixing things that would require pretty big changes, and I'm not sure they'll work. Example: I've already tried cutting huge chunks of the scene out and disabling front-loaded scripts so it will load faster, but at best, I'm reducing the de-sync by a small amount. My next idea is to trigger the music from the loading of the first scene, but subsequent scenes will then run into the same problem. Help? Is this even possible?

 

I just tried that, but the behavior is the same.

 

Thank you. I'll put together a repro case if possible. Not sure what you all could do to fix it though. Loads will always take however long they take, so what could you do other than tweak the audio playback? That would produce audible artifacts instead.
Next thing to try on this end is pre-loading the problem scenes in some sort of disabled state well before they're needed, then enable at the correct time.