Situation:
Driving, using Android Auto to connect with your carscreen and steeringwheel buttons.
Plexamp can download album for album or a few hours random playlist to play offline.
Somehow it’s not completely offline. It seems to search for plexserver for info and starrating.
Q1: How much data is plexamp using when it’s connecting to the database of plex serveral times a day?
Q2: AA is showing a single star and pushing does rate 5 stars after 26-35 sec delay.( delay is lack of connection plex library?)
App is reacting imidiately. Somehow the carscreen has only a delay.
Proposal is.
Would it be possible to get 12345 parts of rating? (now i need to open the app wile driving.)
And a option of “only refresh and sync on wifi” so the app is buffering your changes until your home or on wifi.
And a manual button to provoke sync if you need to on celluair 4g mobile.
Why? I use my time in the car to pick the wrong , bad and good and very good in my library so i can clean up doubles and obsolete mp3 files.
That could be possible but the 20-30-40 sec delay after pres star is something else.
i try to film it so you can see. don’t know why that is happening. only thing i can think of is it tries to connect with “homebase” library…
when i used musicolet it’s layout was the same button wise but much more responsive.
i activated acces on internet (outside my wifi) just to see if the delay is gone.
Edit: Indeed online active does give the respons a boost.
The . . . Does stil nothing so i think your right it is prohibited by AA.
Yes, if there is internet we currently wait for the server to or the rating change before sending the update back to the Car UI. If the internet is flakey this may take some time.
I’ve just made a change which should mean the UI is updated immediately and the server will be updated with the new rating when possible.
Ive drove some time now with plexamp active.
Sometimes is quite responsive and sometimes is in my phonescreen rated to 5stars after a tap on cardisplay wile carscreen stil is waiting to update.
My methode is now i have Flitsmeister active which keeps my phone open and active so i can switch between plexamp en FM to rate less then 5 stars.( the phone in a holder high on the cardesk so minimum amount time of eye’s of the road and i only touch my phone in situations i have time orherwise i just hit pauze or just leave it be. Safety first)
Car displays google maps or plexamp.
Carctouchscreen 5 stars or crossed star for delete out library as in not good enough to keep. 2 stars for hmm not very interesting
3 for middle of the road. Baseline music. 4 for good but not outstanding.
This way i can cleanup my library and have the same ratings at home on other devices
Of the songs i downloaded.
After a wile songs are repeated with rating so then i can just listen.
All and all very happy with this app.
And the update does help minimise distraction time.
Musicolet app did the same so i think it’s blocked by Android Auto
Only thing info of the song did show on musicolet app but not on plex.
The 3 dots button i mean.
Doesn’t matter much now i know i use my phone screen if i need to know. Or adjust rating lower then max 5.
update:
i am pleased with the present status of usability of plexamp.
i am using it every day. (connected/on-line but i download mp3 on the phonememory.)
And i installed the app also on my daughters phone using the master inlog and switching to hers.
i think she likes it. (She is always listing music on youtube so i tell her i have a large library of real music. enjoy!)
So i am exploring all other possible ways now. plex series and movies. photo’s
yep i am sucked in by PLEX.
or 
the rating change before sending the update back to the Car UI. If the internet is flakey this may take some time.
(She is always listing music on youtube so i tell her i have a large library of real music. enjoy!)
