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0020065MMAAndroid Autopublic2024-05-09 19:27
Reporterrusty Assigned To 
PriorityurgentSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
Status newResolutionopen 
Product Version2.0.1 
Target Version2.1.1 
Summary0020065: More and better organized Android Auto root nodes + shortcuts
DescriptionCurrent root nodes are usually displayed in Android Auto as shown below:
Tracks | Playlists | Artists | More

More --->
Genres
Albums


There are a couple of issues with this layout:
A) Some of the current nodes aren't even that useful since there are often too many subnodes to navigate quickly (e.g. There can be > 100 artists and 100s of albums.
B) There's no access to other nodes such as Composers, Years, Ratings, Podcasts, Audiobooks
C) There are no shortcuts to recently played nodes

Suggested changes:
1) Change the menus to:
Tracks | Recent | Playlists | More

a) Tracks (same as currently)

b) Recent: Shows links to the last 10 recently _played_ (not browsed) nodes so that users don't have to 'deep dive' to get to favorite items
e.g.
--
Playlist > Good stuff 4+
561 Tracks
--
Year > 1970s (all)
300 Tracks
--
Rating > 4 Stars
600 Tracks
--
Genre > Rock
333 Tracks
--
Audiobook > Harry Potter
33 Tracks
--
Podcast > Leviathan

b) Playlists

c) More
Genres
Ratings
Years
Artists
Composers
Albums
AudioBooks
Podcasts

As proposed at 0018110, it would also be useful for users to be able to customize what nodes to display as a future feature. Once this is implemented, I would consider removing Albums from the list of browsable attributes.
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Fixed in build

Relationships

related to 0020109 feedbackmartin 'Resume Playback' positioning is confusing 
related to 0018110 closedmartin Customize order of Android Auto root nodes 
related to 0020133 newmartin Android Auto: Classical Music node is missing in default config 

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