Java MediaPlayer stops playing every few seconds

Question

I want to play music in background in my game so I added MediaPlayer but I have a problem with buffering. When the song is playing in background, every few seconds it stops for a moment. Disk is suddenly spinning faster while the song is stopped so the player probably loads file meanwhile. Is there any way to force player to load whole media before playing? Or is it the problem not related to Java? Other media players play files normally.

Here is the code:

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import javafx.embed.swing.JFXPanel;
import javafx.scene.media.Media;
import javafx.scene.media.MediaPlayer;

public class GameMusic extends JFXPanel {
    public GameMusic(String path){
        Make_List(path);
        Music();
    }
    private String[] List = new String[0];
    private void Make_List(String dir){
        File directory = new File(dir);
        File[] fList = directory.listFiles();
        for (File file : fList) {
            if (file.isFile()) {                              
                if(file.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(".mp3".toLowerCase()) ) {
                    List = Arrays.copyOf(List, List.length+1);
                    List[List.length-1]=file.toURI().toASCIIString();
                }    
             } 
             else if (file.isDirectory()) {
                Make_List(file.getAbsolutePath());
             }
        } 
    }   
    private int x=0;
    private MediaPlayer player = null;
    private Random rn = new Random();
    private boolean next = true;
    private void Music() {
        TimerTask CheckTime;
        CheckTime = new TimerTask() {         
            @Override
            public void run() {               
                if(next){     
                    next = false;
                    x=rn.nextInt(List.length);
                    player = new MediaPlayer(new Media(List[x]));      
                    player.play();                           
                    player.setOnReady(new Runnable() {
                        @Override
                        public void run() {       
                            String title =(String)player.getMedia().getMetadata().get("title");
                            String artist = (String)player.getMedia().getMetadata().get("artist");
                            //those 2 lines are there to just show what song is currently playing     
                            //Start.lt.setTitle("Console playing:"+title+" by "+artist);
                            //Start.lt.Prntl("Playing:"+title+" by "+artist);
                        }
                    });
                }
                double tt=player.getTotalDuration().toSeconds()-5;
                double ct=player.getCurrentTime().toSeconds();
                if(tt<=ct) 
                    next =true;
            }
         };
         Timer tmr = new Timer();
         tmr.scheduleAtFixedRate(CheckTime, 0, 5000);
    }            
}

The player should run properly only with this

GameMusic gm = new GameMusic(/* Directory with music files */);

I tried to remove everything that was not required to just play file and it still keeps stopping songs for a moment.

Also when I have written the code like year ago,iIt worked perfectly when files were in internal drive, now I am using external drive. Can this be a problem?

When I check disc usage it stays at 0%and every few seconds it jumps up to 70-100% when player loads file. Song stops mostly when disc usage jumps to 100%. Is there way to force java to load it faster or load bigger parts? Or is it just the hard drive fault?

I am not native English speaker and it is quite hard for me to explain the problem, so sorry if something is not clear.

Refer below link to play mp3:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16870064/how-to-play-an-mp3-file-in-java — JDK, May 28 '15 at 06:03
Why does your code has a timer? Do you want the song after every 5 secs? — ItachiUchiha, May 28 '15 at 06:44
I tried your program and the only pause that I faced was while a song was completed and we had to wait for the timer to play the next song. — ItachiUchiha, May 28 '15 at 09:24
So it's most likely my disc fault, I tried that mp3 player [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16870064/how-to-play-an-mp3-file-in-java] and works better than mine when it comes to random song from directory. They both work perfectly when used predetermined song. There is no way to force to load whole song before playing in MediaPlayer case right? BTW I set timer for 5 seconds because I didn't wanted it to take too much processing power, It takes only up to 5 seconds to change, and the way it's used it shouldn't be a problem. — n1t4chi, May 28 '15 at 11:56

Java MediaPlayer stops playing every few seconds

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