Android Auto, classical albums not showing

[BastiaanO]

Telephone: Nokia 4.2, Android 11, MMA 2.0.0.1091
Android Auto does not show the albums with Type=Classical. At first I had my classical albums organized as '\Classical\Albums'. Considering that the Classical submap usage might be the problem, I re-synchronized my classical albums to my phone as '\Albums' (the same as the pop music). That didn't help, I still can only see the pop-albums on Android Auto. On my phone everything works fine, regardless of the mapping choice for synchronization.

As a workaround in Android Auto I click on More>Genres. Then I also see all my classical genres. Not completely in alphabetically order, but below the pop-music genres.

As a side point: in the Genres-screen I see the number of albums that are within that specific genre. But if I click on the Genre it opens a screen organized by Artist. I would have expected a screen with a listing of the albums.

[rusty]

Thanks for the feedback!

Re. classical music on Android Auto, I've added an issue to enable this by default https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=20133 , but note that you can already enable this in with the latest Test builds (1095+, available shortly) via Options > Settings > Playback > Remote controls:Customize navigation for external apps

Re. Genres navigation being by Artist rather than Album, I think it's a personal preference (ideally subnodes would be configurable in the future) so we mirrored the structure used in MMA.

-Rusty

[cangaru]

I play a lot of classical music, the genre thing is not so important to me because it is quite arbitrary, but what IS important is playing a complete work by a given composer: Beethoven's 9th symphony for example, which normally is made up of 4 tracks or "songs" in the frequent parlance. Asking Android Auto to find that and play it I have found to be almost impossible. (I have not worked out how to do it yet, I must say!) It tends to just look for tracks not albums or folders (which would be ideal for me). The classical music world is largely ignored by the designers of media apps, imo