i mostly listen to music while i play and turn the sound and audio effects off... it would be nice if when i came back to it it would remember my settings.... and not start up sound again

This should be working. We'll check it out.

Thanks!

probably related: the water waves' background effects and the birds' sounds don't turn off when I disable sound effects.
Also, opening a menu like "buy more coins" disables the water waves for a while, but the birds' sounds keep being played randomly

I think you should make them turn-offable too :)