G’Day all.
I have seen this elsewhere on the forum but I haven’t seen a resolution. A new car that can’t handle 800 albums on a USB so, I took the ARC route with CarPlay. I notice if I select Library>Artist>My Albums only a max of five are listed. Many artists I have as many as 20 albums but, its truncated to only five with no “show More” option like in the app. I’m too old now to remember all the album names so a search through Library>Albums is in the too hard basket.
Any word on if this will be resolved or is it a CarPlay issue and out of ROON’s hands? Sorry if its a repeat…
Thanks…
This is not a limitation of ARC (or other App store products), but a requirement of Apple CarPlay.
So, nothing can be done?
This is a limitation set by Apple. This official post summarizes matters, but there are others.
Indeed a limitation of Apple’s carplay, it’s a pitty.
But, if you could access only your ‘favorite’ albums or albums with a certain tag, this would be very welcome! Now it is not usable unfortunately.
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More a feature than a limitation, so we don’t spend too much time with our eyes off the road. Siri looks fairly well when you ask it to “play album name by artist in Room Arc”.
It’s not flawless though. Just yesterday I got frustrated that I couldn’t get it to understand “play Aghori Mhori Mei by Smashing Pumpkins in Room Arc”. But any name easier than that, and it works.
iPod Classic, + 2 SD cards + iPhone with CarPlay might get you to 800 albums for your road trip!
I don’t want to see all my albums (> 2.500), but only my favorite ones. That should not be so dificult, yes?
That’s not unreasonable. It’s hard to draw the line… favorites sounds like a good compromise to me. I’d say tags may be too distracting, but this is very subjective. Maybe the Roon team can figure something out.
I still think that drivers’ safety is more important than finding an album. The best way to keep our eyes on the road would be to improve the voice-command capabilities.