There is a bug if you download music. I could reproduce it on iOS pretty easy: Download a playlist or a radio station If you click on the three dots and select “update…” → nothing happens. It only works if you select one of the downloaded items (a Playlist or a radio like 1970s radio) and select…

That is by design. The top-level refresh is intended to update smart playlists, and fetch missing items. The per-item refresh is a “harder” refresh which recomputes/redownloads entire things. Since it can be destructive, we don’t do that with the top-level refresh.

OK, so the per items refresh of a smart playlist forces a reload of songs based on your defined rule. I think I got this point. :slight_smile: I have a smart playlist with the rule: Artist stile > is > southern rock limited to <30> items. I downloaded this playlist and checked the row of the first …

That is a bit more nuanced, and depends on whether the smart playlist was sorted or not (or was sorted “randomly”). If unsorted or sorted randomly, the down grabs a sample of the playlist, and you need the “harder” refresh (per item). If sorted (e.g. “last listened to” or something), then the top …

OK I think I get it. I didn’t know that the download function treats randomly sorted playlists in another way than “sorted by…” playlists. But that makes perfectly sense because a randomly sorted playlist with 1’000 songs takes more resources to resort than a “added within the last 30 days” after y…

I’m facing a similar issue. I have a smart playlists that groups all 4 star and 4 start tracks on my library. If i use the general refresh option, it doesn’t download newly added items to the playlist. If i do the per-playlist refresh it does work.

As described above, it’s a feature and not a bug?

[image] elan: The top-level refresh is intended to update smart playlists, and fetch missing items. “The top-level refresh is intended to update smart playlists, and fetch missing items.” That’s my problem. It’s not doing that. I started using Plex again after not using it for almost a year. …

2112591706156514.zip (176.9 KB) Here you go! Let me know if you need anything else.

[image] facundopignanelli: Let me know if you need anything else. The name of the playlist in question would be great :slight_smile:

Sorry, thought I had said! The name is “Loved Tracks”

[Bug] Update downloads does not work

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elan July 2, 2025, 8:30pm 9

Then perform a refresh, and post Plexamp logs, otherwise it’s impossible for us to help you.

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[Bug] Update downloads does not work

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