Could it be that your computer is either possessed or having an allergic reaction to some music genre?
I cannot for the life of me think of what to have you check. My brain will keep stewing on this and I will try to think of something better than my idiotic comment at the top of my post.
You are sure you are not filling up on the SSD? Not full, but I am dimly aware of some threshold where they start becoming a bit slower.
Perhaps some massive fragmentation issue is present?
Dropouts seem to be caused by things like settings, background services/applications, antivirus software, device drivers, disk throughput, lack of available resources, and occasionally hardware.
Most of that seems to have been checked, per the numerous threads/responses above.
Hang in there - something is causing it, and sooner or later either you or one of us will figure it out.
Bob Bone