Server Version#: 1.18.9.2571
Player Version#: 7.30.0.16390
Phone is Samsung Galaxy S10e running Android 10 on Verizon (stock, not rooted)
After being a very happy Plex user for years for TV and Movies, I recently started importing my music collection into plex and planned to start using the Android App as my daily driver for music. I have about 1,500 songs in my library so far but I immediately noticed issues with simply being able to play, pause, etc, which has brought this all to a halt.
Here are two specific examples that, frankly, have stopped me dead in my tracks with my mouth open when I noticed them.
Example 1: Playback to any bluetooth wireless headset. I have 4 headsets but I’ll focus on one, MPOW Flame. I can advance to the next and previous track and I can pause. But once I pause the music I cannot play it again. I unlock my phone, the Plex app is still there running but I have to tap play on the phone’s screen. I can reproduce this 100% of the time with Plex.
Example 2: Playback to 2014 Hyundai Sonata. This is NOT android auto. This is simple, legacy bluetooth connection. I cannot change tracks forward or backward. Additionally, when I press the power button on the stereo while music is playing it should pause but does not. When I turn my stereo back on, the music has continued to play in the background. The pause button does work, BUT… The same issue from Example 1 (not being able to resume after pausing) exists here. Finally, THE WORST is since the music does not automatically pause like every other player out there, when I get out of my car my music starts blaring out of my phone. I have to unlock it and press the pause button. This is completely unuseable.
Every single other media player I have used in the last 5+ years has ZERO issues. Audible, Amazon Music, Spotify, Google Music, Youtube, Poweramp, Shuttle+, VLC, etc., etc.
I really would like this to work which I why I’m taking the time to post here in hopes that It’s a simple setting or something that I’m missing. I went through the settings to see if there was something like “enable bluetooth controls” or “auto play/pause on connect/disconnect” but it’s either not there or I’m missing it. I also didn’t see any posts about these types of issues, so if this has already been addressed, I apologize and please point me in that direction.
I know that no software, including Plex, is perfect. But in my opinion, in 2020, this is media player 101 and should pretty much work without issue. Thanks for any help.