I’ve seen discussion that cast support is coming, but haven’t seen anything on android auto. Is this planned? Is there some sort of roadmap for the app we could view?
Thanks!
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Planned. No timeframe b/c we do this in our spare time 
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Understood, thanks for the reply!
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Really looking forward to this as well! Loving Plexamp for music much more than the standard Plex app, works a lot more seamlessly and without random music playback stops while I’m driving.
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Looks like Apple Carplay support was just added in an update, so hopefully Android Auto support is next!
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That’s what I’m hoping 
I have tested Carplay and I must say that an excellent job has been done even if I don’t understand why the “albums” list is always left out.
I hope they work on the same levels for Android Auto which currently with the classic app is at the limit of the unusable …
This is great for the Apple users but when can we expect some love to be shown to Android users?
Looks like Android Auto support is here! Will try over the next few days and report back on stability/performance.
Android Auto support is here, and it looks like it’s got all the features that were missing from the plex app. It looks really good
Thanks Plex guys!
PlexAmp on Android Auto crashed a few times on my drive home from work unfortunately. Next time this happens I will stop playing anything until I arrive at my destination and save the logs to upload. I would share them now, but I’ve played a bunch of music since then so I think they would be useless.
Plexamp on Android Auto crashed again on my way to work this morning - here’s a log that I pulled from the app:
758028380915346.zip (272.9 KB)
Very very positive impressions
all the Plex for AA troubles wiped out in a few days
thank you very much to all the guys who took care of this project
only 2 (minor) issues
When you reconnect AA after a stop and you were listening to an album, the queue of songs and the corresponding button disappear even if pressing “next” the remaining songs are accessible
The song change notification when you are on other services presents the artist image instead of the album image
Thanks again to you
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We’re trying to look up your crash reports and only see 2 over the last week, are you using this Plex username on the app?
Yes, I am. Maybe it’s Android Auto actually crashing, and not PlexAmp? It’ll be playing music, and after 20 minutes or so upon finishing a track and moving to the next one, an error will appear on the screen. I guess I’ll try and take a picture of it next time, but it’s tough because I’m driving while it happens.
Thank you to Elan and the entire PLEX Amp staff for putting in Android Auto … Its working great for me!
One small request … when you get to it. When playing music the album cover art is all the way to the left as a background. Would it be possible to have the same kind of blurred background happen as in the mobile apps?
Thanks so much again … Great job!
EB
I think that’s just Android Auto itself blurring the album art? I’m not sure we have much ability to customize that.
Just fantastic work on the Android Auto integration, guys. Plex just continues to impress. Thank you so much for all you folks do. Quick question: in the Plexamp app on my phone I can see all of the dumped-into-one-library terabyte or 2 of artists/albums etc. perfectly, but when it’s translated to the Android Auto app and appears on my little 2020 Mazda screen, it brings up an extremely abbreviated list.
Are there constraints native to the Auto interface that cause this? Or would some combination of library reorganization and grouping on my NAS fix it? Or do I just have to make a separate playlist for each artist, or what? Any advice is appreciated.
And most importantly want to express my appreciation. The lifetime plex pass is some of the best money I’ve ever spent.
I’ve been searching, but I don’t see a ton of accurate posts so I figured I’d reply here. Is there a list of verbal commands with Plexamp? Specifically with Google.
And a huge…huge kudos to the team working in their spare time to make this app remind me of why Plex started this to begin with, passion.
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My wife and I have been growing increasingly disenchanted with Google Play Music and I have been looking at various cloud-based alternatives. YouTube Music is a mess and is barely even rudimentary without paying for a subscription. And we ditched Apple years ago and will never go back. I have been a long-time user of PMS and currently have almost 32TB of music and video content. I was ecstatic when I learned that Plexamp now supports Android Auto.
Plexamp looks extremely promising but the Android Auto integration is almost unusable for us. I LOVE that we can browse our music on the head unit, but right now we are having basic usability issues. Here are some problems we’ve both been noticing since we started using it the past couple of weeks:
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Voice commands do not work at all. Even if Plexamp is open and is currently playing music, it always tells me there is a problem. For example, I might say, “Okay, Google, play ‘Moving Pictures’ by Rush,” and it responds correctly with “Asking Plexamp to play ‘Moving Pictures’ by Rush.” Then, in a few seconds, it invariably says, “Sorry, something went wrong. Please try opening the app to continue.” This happens every single time with every play request I have tried. I’ve tried variations specifying “…in Plexamp” and “Tell Plexamp to play…” I’ve tried it with albums I’ve downloaded and those which I haven’t.
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Lists/menus are incomplete. For example, from the home screen, if I select “Downloaded,” I get a partial list containing 14 of the 45 albums I have downloaded to my phone. If I go to “Library” I only get letters A-Q, and only a subset of artists under each letter. If I search by letter, again I only get a subset of artists.
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But wait…
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My lists/menus have been incomplete for two weeks, but when I just went out to the garage to count the number of albums I was seeing, the full lists of downloads and artists suddenly became available. I tried it in my wife’s car with her phone, too, and it also suddenly showed everything. I wonder if it is because this time our phones were on wifi and not cellular? Is Plexamp pulling down a new copy of my library info from the server for Android Auto even though the information is already stored locally on my phone? That’s very odd and unexpected behavior (and inefficient use of cellular).
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[Update 8/25/20:] Yesterday, barely 24 hours later, I drove my car and found that again only 14 items in my downloads were listed. I turned on the radio and did not check that the rest of my library was available.
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[Update 9/5/2020:] If my phone is on wifi (i.e., I’m parked in the garage) then all of the playlists and library information are available. When I’m on cellular, much is missing. Even if I start out on wifi and all of my library shows up on the head unit, and then drive away, when I pull up my library again, I only have partial information. -
My wife and kids tend to play the same album over and over. And given the troubles we regularly experience with Google Assistant and incorrect searches (just try asking for an album with a title track or with “Greatest Hits” in the title!), I tend to do this as well rather than spend 10 minutes fighting it. In fact, repeating the current album is our main use case. But when an album is over, we have to go back out and re-navigate to the album to play it again. Every other music player we have used, including Google Play, Amazon, and iTunes on iPhone, lets us repeat the album by pressing the Skip Forward button. Plexamp does not do this, nor is there an option to enable Repeat. Please, please implement this!
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As many others have reported, the album art is usually wrong. It is odd that Plexamp cycles faster than other players, which generally switch out per song. I realize this is a long-standing bug with Android Auto. As someone who works on the music stack for watches and wearables at a major tech company, the fact that Spotify does not have this problem does not surprise me. Spotify integration is very much unlike other providers, and they have a black-box library that encapsulates the communication and data management.
Android Auto integration aside, Plexamp is very nice. Well done. It has so much potential to be the perfect alternative to Google Play Music.
