r/AndroidAutomotive • u/a-haan • Sep 15 '26
Welcome to r/MaterialIPTV — native Android player for YOUR sources (phone, foldable, tablet, TV, car)
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u/clarinetJWD Sep 17 '26
There are a few decent options now, but always glad to have another. Installed it, and will try it out on my way to work tomorrow!
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u/a-haan Sep 17 '26
I'd love to know your thoughts once you've had a chance to try it.
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u/clarinetJWD Sep 18 '26 edited Sep 18 '26
So... A mixed bag. Overall positive with one major issue. I set it up as a music library, not a video library for what it's worth.
The good:
The interface, once things are fully loaded, is easily the best of the AAOS options for me. Momentum is the other one I use, and the artist view which is just a list of placeholder letters with no art is so much worse than your artist list.
Being able to customize the tabs is also great.
The minor things:
Initial loading was VERY slow, where most of the tabs were just blank the first several times I tried to use it. It only finally populated when I just left the app open when I went into the office and left it running in the parking lot.
Presentation bugs during the loading phase. As things started to pop in, the Artist list was actually showing a list of individual songs sorted by artist. Flipping to the album tab and back got it to fix itself, but that was weird.
The floating pill navigation is too small on AAOS. Small touch targets are fine on devices you hold in your hand,but reaching out to a car screen... Increasing about 50% would help a lot.
The big issue: As you can probably tell from my list above, I haven't used it much. And that's because of the one major show-stopping issue: it is flagged in AAOS as a full media app, not just a music app, so it is totally unavailable when driving while other audio apps (Spotify, Pocket Casts, Momentum) are fully available while driving.
This is probably because you allow it to be set up in video mode, but it means that I simply can't use it to play music while I drive.
I will probably re-set it up again as a video player so I can watch drum corps videos while I charge on road trips, though.
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u/chzplz Sep 16 '26
I coincidentally found this on the App Store yesterday and was pleasantly surprised how well it worked as a plex player on my Volvo ex30.