[BUG] Android Auto can't view artists list or long playlists

[JW62]

@Paradox52525

If you want to keep the latest beta, there is a very basic workaround you can use: open the regular Plex app on your phone before connecting it to your car and start playing a playlist/artist from there. When you connect your phone to your car and launch AA, it will carry over what you are playing in the regular Plex app. The display and navigation controls will then work fine in AA, but you will not be able to make any changes to your play selection.

Even this workaround can be problematic since AA is not always aware of media being played by the Plex app. I have detailed this bug in the following post: [BUG] Android Auto missing Plex tile on Home screen - #2 by anon18523487.

Additionally, the “long list” issue is made worse by the fact that the Plex menu in AA is broken. It is not organized correctly and it is leading to lists (artists, albums, etc.) that are not filtered by the selected music library. I’ve documented this in the following thread: [Bug] Plex menu in Android Auto is wrong - #2.