Playback pausing

    I ran a couple of Pi 3 B+ for a couple of years with no issues.

    I upgraded these to the latest LibreELEC version a few months ago and started getting mp3 and mp4 playback pausing. What happens is the mp3 or mp4 file starts playing. Then it pauses for a second or two then resumes playing. It happens every 15 to 60 seconds or so.

    I noticed that my living room Pi was on 2 GHz WiFi. I looked at changing to 5 GHz and found that it did not see my 5 GHz SSID.

    I installed the latest version of LibreELEC on a Pi 4 4GB a couple of days ago. I was able to connect it to my 5 GHz WiFi during install. I still had the pausing issue with both mp3 and mp4 playback.

    I found this article on modifying the cache.

    HOW-TO:Modify the video cache - Official Kodi Wiki

    Here is my advancedsettings.xml file that I created.

    <advancedsettings>

    <cache>

    <buffermode>1</buffermode>

    <memorysize>204857600</memorysize

    <readfactor>100</readfactor>

    </cache>

    </advancedsettings>

    These settings resolved the mp4 playback issue. But mp3 playback still pauses. I have read that the cache settings should work for both video and audio.

    How do I fix the mp3 playback pausing?

    Thanks in advance,

    Kevin