Automatic download of playlist
I would like to have a setting that allowed me to automatically download the current and at most X number of items in the Playlist.
That way I could add episodes to the Playlist and always now I have at least the next X items offline. And as soon as a episode is finished and marked as played it will be deleted and a new one in the list will be downloaded.
I don't listen to all episodes of all podcasts so automatically download them is of no interest and I would like to limit the storage used so I don't want to download the complete Playlist but something like the next 2 or 3 would be perfect.
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Greg Searle commented
This is already a feature that I am actively using. Set the global download limit to X number of episodes, and set the automatic playlist to only add downloaded episodes. Set the automatic cleanup option appropriately. Then the app takes care of this automatically.
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Anonymous commented
This is my only real bugbear having switched from elsewhere this would make the app perfect
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Fletcher Kauffman commented
This is my number one request, and I have submitted it previously with probably more complicated verbage. This is massively useful for me, because I only ever play from the playlist, I have a whole lot of effort put into adding things and sorting them by priority, etc for my playlist, but the biggest problem I have is that very often I have episodes that are not downloaded that have to be streamed, but then the episode is either not available, or there's some transient problem, or I don't have a good connection at the time. I would love to just cache the top X number of items in my playlist, every time the playlist sorts itself. as it is now, I have to go through my playlist manually, and select dozens and dozens of items to download, even if they're not in the top 20 or so that I would want downloaded, because the playlist can shuffle itself based on priorities.
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Anonymous commented
Thanks Peter!
As an initial implementation, if it's simpler, I would even be ok downloading the whole playlist just to be able to have it offline.
This is also similar to https://podcastaddict.uservoice.com/forums/211997-general/suggestions/32477587-add-an-option-to-only-download-episodes-in-the-pla so if there's a way to combine votes, that would bump this one up a little.
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Mithaldu commented
I'd like to add that i'd like this to work with shuffle as well. Currently if i am playing a shuffled playlist, every item it attempts to play will need to be downloaded as it plays it. The only current workaround would be to download the entire podcast, which is not useful as it'd be bigger than my phone's storage.