Playing an Emby playlist downloaded to Iphone, play via Apple Car Play - How do you do it?

[ginjaninja 643]

What are the best solutions out there people have found? i dont think Emby supports offline play via Car Play, and has no concept of offline playlists in any case,  is that right?

Best solution i have so far is install vlc, slect the vlc app folder as a custom download folder in Emby. Play with VLC, unfortuately the playlist is not downloaded so you just have to rely on VLCs natural segmentation (Album, artist, songs, genres etc).

Edited Monday at 01:11 PM by ginjaninja

[ginjaninja 643]

Interestingly both Emby and VLC crash in car play with a large playlist with embedded artwork. AI told me that Car Play enacts a strict response timeout from its apps and will close them if they fall under the threshold, and confirmed as much from an ios level log. Emby IOS client gets very laboured with a large playlist download, even after it is fully downloaded. Ive not tested it but perhaps a more modern phone with faster storage (and cpu) would be inherently more robust in car play ( I was testing on iphone X).

The solution was to "hey siri, shuffle playlist car in vlc", by finding the command and allocating it to the app you bypass the need to open the (slow) UI. I suspect the same would work for Emby but not tested (and i suspect woudlnt target offline copy). Im pleased because when ever the phone goes near the house the media get synced for VLC, and audio playback isnt consuming mobile data/relying on internet signal.

[BMW] Car play integration is very impressive, shame it took me this long to get over my "apple hang up". Better than the car's (already very good) infotainment system with better audio automation. Never going to pay for a BMW traffic subscription ever again (the way it should be when phones are infinitely more powerful, more easily upgraded and have a paid data connection, compared to inbuilt.)

Edit: Evermusic looks like a very capable app for offline sync/playback if happy to pay for it.

Edited 38 minutes ago by ginjaninja