MrMC

Hi,

There is no caching of music files(as far as I can see) , davilla might be able to answer more on player differences and "tick" that you experience.

If you were on TvOS I would offer to stick you in TestFlight so you can try it, since you are on fire tv that option is not available for us yet. That being said, you can easily get a refund for your purchase in case you are seeing issues with it.

We are not aware of any issues, I am using it daily for videos and music and see no problems on atv 4 and fire tv 2, but it might be network or server related on your end.

I have experienced what sounds like a similar issue using Kodi with Fire TV. Video would play no issue but music would "blip" every n seconds. Drove me nuts and didn't make any sense to me and in the end i gave up on using Kodi for Music. At some point as i changed my set-up the issue resolved. I can't tell you which change exactly but what I have changed is:-

SMB share from external hdd connected to airport extreme > NFS share from Synology NAS (BIG improvement on e.g big media list response in GUI)
KODI>MrMC
local device mySQL > centralised mySQL (NAS now hosts database for all clients)

I can't say that any of the above is the root cause/solution but i no longer have the music blip

Android can be twitchy about bandwidth and cpu. I'll look into it.

see -> debuglog

a few important items in advancedsettings.xml have been moved to the GUI settings.

settings -> system -> Internet Access

Buffer Size
Buffer Mode
Max readrate factor

Those are some setting that moved from advancedsettings.xml into GUI Settings.

Not see any issue with music playback on either of the three supported platforms. A debuglog might show more info.