[Steve100]

=10.5ptHi Frans

This is quite off topic from this thread but it may help others experiencing the same issue's during network playback of TIDAL content on underpowered SBC's

I'm glad we were able to get a reason behind this. Although it seems to be clear that it is a CPU issue, you may want to bear in mind that most SBC (single Board computers) lack hardware acceleration, even for simple things like wired network traffic. I've even seen some hardware based Wired network controllers in the back of £4k Sony TV's struggle to do more than 38 Mbps, even when they're on a port speed of 100.

May I recommend that you come away from versatile SBC's that are used for any application and try some of the dedicated SoC's (System on Chip) media players. Some of the brands that the international community use with OSMC or LibreElec for Kodi is WeTek, Minix and although expensive, the NVidia shield. Most of these boxes can have Kodi (via LibreElec) boot from SD Card so you also enjoy Android TV or, like me, I prefer to load LibreElec onto the internal memory for better Kodi performance as I'm not that bothered about losing Android TV. I believe OSMC is supported for many of these players too.

I should also point out that the latest Model 3B of Raspberry Pi is probably going to help a bit but it still lacks the performance compared to leading SOC media players which include dedicate GPU's for many types of hardware accelerated functions, specifically designed for media playback.=10.5ptHope this helps.

Steve