Android Auto Doesn't Show All Artists In 3 Different Cars

[XrayDoc88]

build-976-bundle-play [976004-c2601e58], Full Version, 64 Bit, Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G, Android Version 13

I've sent emails about this issue twice to support with no response.  When I choose the "Artists" category in 3 different cars, the A-Z button only displays A through S.  T through Z are greyed out.  If I choose "Album Artists", the A-Z button displays all A through Z.  This has been this way forever.  I doubt that it is phone or car specific.  Are you aware of this?  Is there a way to correct this bug?  Thanks.

 

[andrewilley]

How many individual Artist names do you have in your Library? There is a limit imposed by Google as to how many items can be displayed in a single list - it's quite big though, somewhere between 400 and 600 items from memory.

Andre

[XrayDoc88]

Well, I guess that could be the problem, although I bet (or hope) Poweramp could be modified to work around this limit.  Afterall, my phone is running an Android system and I have no limitations seeing every single "artist" listed on my phone.  I just can't see them all on my car using android auto.

My music collection has 795 "album artists" and 1508 "artists" in Poweramp.

Edited June 17 by XrayDoc88

[MotleyG]

1 hour ago, XrayDoc88 said:

My music collection has 795 "album artists" and 1508 "artists" in Poweramp.

Android Auto won't show a list with more than about 500 entries, depending on how many characters there are in each name.

1 hour ago, XrayDoc88 said:

I guess that could be the problem, although I bet (or hope) Poweramp could be modified to work around this limit.

This is a limit for AA, not something that PA can just bypass.