If Plexamp is closed and I open it on my phone or computer, it will pop back into the last playlist and song that was playing.
However, if the app is closed and you select it using Android Auto, this won’t happen. If the app is open on the phone before selecting it on Android Auto, the playlist will be there.
This causes me to use more data because having to reselect the playlist means that my cache is wiped out.
If you open the phone after starting Android Auto, does it show your play queue?
This is not true; the cache is not wiped out.
I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. I plug my phone into the car and AA loads on the car’s screen. If plexamp was open but paused(showing the player notification) then when I select plexamp on the car’s screen, I get the little yellow icon on the right showing that there’s something currently playing. If plexamp was not open, that icon isn’t there.
I don’t do anything with the phone itself in either case.
I’m using a star weighted playlist of my entire library that I play in random order since playlists default to title sorted. Not sure how it could be using the cache when I have to go select the playlist again and my limited testing seems to bear this out.
If there’s a way to get back to where I was in the playlist and use the cache without the yellow icon I’d love to know how. Right now I try to remember to open plexamp before I get in the car, but sometimes I’m listening to podcasts and plexamp gets closed before I finish the podcast and switch apps.
Really, all of these different threads are my attempts to recreate what I had with my ipod. I had a star weighted playlist of a few hundred songs that would add in random order and which would sync at the end of the day, replacing the played songs with new ones. This allowed me to listen to my library all day without using any data.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. We’ll see if there’s anything we can do to make it show up more often.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. If you instead downloaded a smart playlist which included “not played in X days/weeks” you would have a sliding window of those tracks available offline without any cellular data usage.
This is roughly how the offline rule works, you’ll always have a fresh window of content offline.
to solve this issue I have created a task whereby Plexamp opens when the phone is connected to the USB port.
Awesome.
That’s exactly how the star weighted playlist works. The higher the star rating, the more recent the “not played in X” clause is.
The problem with downloads is that it only grabs the first 24 hours max. With a playlist created on the web, all tracks are in title order and therefore you end up listening to all of the A songs. If you create the playlist on plexamp, you can get it to sort in random order but then it doesn’t automatically refresh correctly. The only way to download new songs is to force a refresh and that downloads all new songs instead of just the ones played. I tried restricting the playlists to 300 songs but that just exacerbated the existing problems.
I already have a rule to open plexamp upon BT connection. But that doesn’t help me when I want to switch from podcast to plexamp and the app was closed in the background.
The “Fresh 
” is an example which auto-refreshes and keeps a sliding window, sorted by “last played at”. You shuffle the playlist on the phone, and then played items disappear when it next refreshes.
Yes, that’s what I do with my playlist. And it works as you describe except for the fact that it uses my data. I’m trying to find a way to avoid that. When I last worked in an office my phone got no signal so even the largest cache option would leave me without music. If downloads let me sync the entire playlist instead of just 24 hours, I’d be perfectly happy. I have plenty of storage space on the phone to fit everything.
That doesn’t make sense if you’re shuffling from Downloads.
You are correct. But as I mentioned, using Downloads doesn’t work well. I either have only the A songs due to the title sorted playlist or I have to manually refresh the entire 24 hr download for the random sorted playlist.
Not sure how your car radio BT works, but if Plexamp is not open there is something to review in your rule.
In my case I was having problems with blank album covers but activating the app before starting AA solved that.
Nothing is wrong with my rule. I added the rule as an attempt to fix the issue with the playlist not showing up. However, plexamp can get closed in the background if you’re not using it and the phone will still be connected via bluetooth so there’s nothing to launch it and there I have no playlist.
My rule opens Plexamp when the phone connects to USB so it is certainly active when starting AA.
If on the other hand you mean that you use other apps while driving and if you return to Plexamp you don’t see the paused track button then it’s a very similar issue to mine
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