Carplay Plays Album Instead of Playlist

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This happens very infrequently, but enough over the past few versions to warrant reporting. Sometimes when I play a song from a playlist, once it finishes it will play the next song in the album its from, rather than the next song on the playlist. This only happens when using Carplay, as when I load the songs on my iPhone manually, it plays correctly.

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Post some Plexamp logs right after it happens.

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I managed to load the log from the last occurrence since it was recent. Look for this line, which references the song I requested from the playlist:

Nov 05, 2022 13:55:16.618 [Javascript] INFO - Car: Play Item Kaikai Kitan (track)

I imagine what you are looking for is around there

Plexamp.5.log (2.1 MB)

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OK, yeah, so itā€™s an issue playing playlists (as opposed to shuffling them). Will fix.

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I was just going to post a similar thing for Android Auto. Downgraded to 4.5.1 and it plays fine, only affects 4.5.2. Selecting a song in the playlist will continue on as if it was selected from an album, versus continuing in the playlist.

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Fixed in next release.

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I hate to be that guy, but Iā€™ve had this error happen again today despite it being fixed in a previous update. Iā€™ve attached the logs.

Tried twice in CarPlay mode to play the song ā€œKaikai Kitanā€ from the playlist before I had to go on my phone to do it manually.

Let me know if you need anything else.

Plexamp.1.log (2.6 MB)

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Just bumping this up

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Hmm, is this happening just with smart playlists?

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This playlist Iā€™ve been playing from is one I created manually, so it shouldnā€™t be that.

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I see this in your logs:

Dec 13, 2022 15:48:58.932 [Javascript] INFO - Car: Play Item As It Was (track) Parent: As It Was (album) Container: Cruisinā€™ Stuff (playlist)
Dec 13, 2022 15:48:58.932 [Javascript] INFO - Car: Play args: server://39502bb56bfe944ed4354a4582980d5edf638f14/com.plexapp.plugins.library/playlists/31093/items playlist: 31093 shuffle: 0

That looks exactly right for playing the playlist and not the album associated with the track; I see the exact same thing on a manual playlist I tried over here.

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That could be when I got on my phone to play something. The issue occurred when I tried to play ā€˜Kaikai Kitanā€™ via CarPlay. After a few attempts at that I just pulled out my phone and played something manually.

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Ah yep, I think itā€™s fixed now. Going from home screen right into a playlist wasnā€™t properly remembering where it came from, vs browsing into all playlists and then into one.

Thanks for the report.

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