From my experience with the CarPlay API and comparisons between Apple Music and other third party apps, it seems that there are certain capabilities and features that are not available to the general public, but exclusive to Apple's own apps. Compact style CPListItems with title, subtitle and image being one, the sticky type section headers being another, the center style "Only displaying music on this iPhone" section header being a third. Also handling of larger lists, as you mentioned. One possible workaround could be to have a special "Load more items" element as the last CPListItem of your list that could be used for fetching more items, but you'd also have to cap off the top of the list, because the maximumItemCount still applies. In terms of user experience this is not a great solution. It would of course be much appreciated if Apple would offer more flexible/powerful API to handle such scenarios.