After more experimentation, I don't think this is necessarily a problem with packages or audio backends. I am now able to get both behaviours on the same MP3, with the only pattern being that if an MP3 doesn't allow random access, I can get it back by first playing an MP3 that does, and then jumping to the first MP3 by clicking on it in the play list in the right-hand column.
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