[FolkSong]

How are you exiting from Kodi?

If you're just closing it or force-stopping it, rather than using the quit option in the power menu then you may be corrupting the databases etc (those are written and updated on exit from the app), which could perhaps cause it.

It varies: Properly exiting from the menu, hitting the home button, or leaving it idle long enough that Amazon's screen saver kicks in, which seems to kick you back to the main menu when you wake it up.

I have thought about this and tried to exit from the menu most of the time, but I still see the problem even right after a proper exit. If it's the case that a single bad exit can permanently damage the database then I think it's hopeless, I'll never be able to 100% avoid them.

I'm running 19.2 and will try 19.3 but I'm not hopeful that it will make a difference. I believe I was on 18.9 when the problem started happening a few months back, but I had been using it for probably a year before that with no issues. I suspect there was a change on Amazon's end that's causing it. I posted about it on reddit a little while ago and other people said they have the issue too.