Currently, you can only search in Plexamp with an internet connection. I download playlists to my car deck and want to be able to search those downloaded tracks and add to the queue with no internet. It’s cumbersome to launch a hotspot every time I want to search a song to add to the queue.
To add more use cases for this: sometimes you just don’t have the hotspot option like on a plane, and searching for a specific track is impossible, even though I know I have it available offline.
I have an offline playlist with about 1000 tracks, and I like to shuffle this playlist. Sometimes while listening to it a specific artists would come up, and I would think “I want to hear more from this artist, let’s see what else I have offline” but the artist profile won’t load.
It would be nice if the app could load a simple version of the artist’s profile, that lists their offline tracks. This offline view would be helpful for albums too.
The newly released version of Plexamp has added an offline mode. When enabled, you can use the app as usual with only the downloaded media. This includes accessing the library for navigation as well as searching.