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TLDR - get Poweramp Recently switched my whole setup over from Plex - and won't look be looking back any time soon. Only thing missing was in-car playback on Android Auto. Maybe I'm old school, but I always sync my favorite albums to my phone and play them locally. No need to use mobile data just for music I play over and over on my ~2 hrs of daily commuting... It is a must to have Android Auto because I always drive with Waze for route optimization in rush hour. The problem I had with nearly every Android Auto supported player is that it can't read from Emby's data folder. It is a permissions thing - and while I understand that write access would be bad, why can't they open files read-only? Well folks, after a couple weeks of no Plex, I finally found a solution which greatly pleases me... (Sorry it's not free.) Step 1: Get Emby Premiere & Sync your music to your Android device. Step 2: Get Poweramp from the play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maxmpz.audioplayer&hl=en_US You can trial it, then buy the unlock for $2.49 Step 3: Point the library searcher within Poweramp to your sync location: /SD_card/Android/data/com.mb.android/files/emby_downloads/Music Now when you sync new music, it is already in your Poweramp library! Poweramp works way better than Plex ever did in Android Auto, plus tons of features as an audio player. Visualization support, multi-band EQ, effects, speed & pitch controls. It will grab album art for you, or use whatever you have embedded already.