by adminspotter » Sat Jul 27, 2019 1:57 pm
I tried an experiment: same phone, same car, same Android Auto, different media player (Pulsar). "Play album <whatever>" delivered the tracks in the appropriate album order, and not alphabetically. So it's MMA that's alphabetizing the album tracks.
I've also run into situations where there have been tracks *related* to the album title - same song title, for example - which MMA inserted into the list when I said "play album <whatever>". The next test there would probably be "play <whatever>", and see if the same list comes up.
Seems like MMA is doing a plain text search of multiple (all?) tag fields, rather than a search of any particular tag field. I'd be curious to know what Android Auto's audio player interface provides to the player program, as far as what the user asked for.
I tried an experiment: same phone, same car, same Android Auto, different media player (Pulsar). "Play album <whatever>" delivered the tracks in the appropriate album order, and not alphabetically. So it's MMA that's alphabetizing the album tracks.
I've also run into situations where there have been tracks *related* to the album title - same song title, for example - which MMA inserted into the list when I said "play album <whatever>". The next test there would probably be "play <whatever>", and see if the same list comes up.
Seems like MMA is doing a plain text search of multiple (all?) tag fields, rather than a search of any particular tag field. I'd be curious to know what Android Auto's audio player interface provides to the player program, as far as what the user asked for.