Sounds Repeating (play back) in head

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I might be misunderstanding OP, but is this like (delayed) "mental" echolalia?

Either way, I get this too. My head will repeat something someone said over and over again and I suddenly understand what they mean and the emotion in the voice. I find it helpful.

I experience this often as well. Usually with words though not music. I don't know what it's called but
sometimes it's so bad I actually have trouble falling asleep because of it :/.

I'd like to resurrect this thread to say how much this bothers me. It's becoming one of my main torments lately, although I've had it for years and years. I judge my general mental condition now by how deeply I have the same sounds or phrases repeating in my mind constantly. The stronger the repeating is, the shorter the segment of sound, the worse I'm doing. If a section of a song makes way for a single line of the lyrics then I can tell that my mental state is getting even worse.
It does seem like perhaps a kind of echolalia, because there's an element of energy-drain - that is, I feel a physical sensation of producing the sounds in the base of the brain/back of throat and tongue or palate (although nothing is actually moving normally).

It stops me sleeping. I wake up with it happening. Sometimes I try to steer it towards a less worn-out section of similar music or phrase to try to break the phase, but rarely successfully. It blocks thoughts and keeps me in a distracted cycle. Thankfully, these cycles have a nature of their own that always involves fading away, and focusing on their longer patterns, I've worked out they last about a week on average. Rarely less than 3 days, and if I'm really suffering it can continue for 2 weeks. I'm at the tail end of a phase with a tiny section of game music sapping my mental energy and driving me insane about 20 hours a day.

I also agree with it probably being related to some kind of freak or sensory overdrive of auditory memory. I've always been very good at precisely remembering complex music and sounds from more-or-less any point in my entire life.

I hear sounds repeating in my head over and over again. Sometimes the sounds come in the form of harsh words that have been spoken to me. Other times the sounds come in the form of songs that I really like. I remember humming Come Dancing by The Kinks over again for years. I bought myself a copy of their State of Confusion LP at the local record shop 20 years ago this past July. I played the record and as soon as that song started to play, i said to myself - "So that's my favourite song! It's nice to hear it again!"