Your Plex music library, playing natively in your car.
No phone, no cables, no projection. Momentum signs in with your Plex account and streams your own library straight to your Android Automotive OS vehicle, in full quality.
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What Momentum does
- Direct-play streaming that leaves your files untouched. Full-quality FLAC arrives as FLAC. Your music is never needlessly transcoded. When the link cannot carry the file (Plex Relay's bandwidth cap, a weak cellular stretch), Momentum falls back to a converted stream instead of stopping, and returns to direct play when it can.
- Streams over home Wi-Fi or the car's own LTE, with automatic server discovery that reconnects as your car moves between networks. Any server your Plex account can reach, including ones friends have shared with you.
- Built for coverage gaps: retries, hold-and-recover, relay-to-direct upgrade mid-track, and server address changes handled without losing your place.
- Browse your library by playlists, artists, albums, or genres, with real art and alphabet grouping. Library changes on the server show up without restarting the app. Typed search when parked.
- Voice control: "Hey Google, play [song]", or an artist, album, playlist, or genre.
- Shuffle, repeat, a live Playing Next queue, and resume where you left off across ignition cycles.
- Play a FAT32 USB stick plugged into the car: folders as albums, covers from the stick, real titles from FLAC and ID3 tags.
- Driving-safety gating built for AAOS: browsing and search lock while moving; playback and voice stay available.
Momentum Pro
Everything above is free and stays free. Pro is a one-time Play Billing purchase made from your phone, no subscription, that adds:
- Offline content — download playlists and albums to head-unit storage and play with no server at all. A storage bar respects the vehicle's reserve; remove downloads whenever you need the space back.
- USB export — put the same downloads on a FAT32 stick, portable to any car running Momentum that can see the same server. Downloads are verified with per-track checksums and resume if the stick is pulled mid-copy.
- Crossfade — two independent decoders with real overlap, 2 to 12 second presets. Tracks from the same album still play gapless, so records flow the way they were sequenced. Direct-play tracks only.
- Two servers at once — pair a second Plex server, browse both from the car, and move playback between them without stopping the music.
- Sonic stations — build a station from whatever is playing, with the similarity range and length under your control. Needs Plex Pass and an analysed library; heuristic mixes otherwise.
One thing to check before installing: your car streams over the internet, so your Plex server must be reachable from outside your home network. The two-minute test and the full requirements are on the Before You Install page.