I don’t see a link
Bumping to keep this suggestion alive. It seems that this is one of the top vote getters for suggestions for PLEXAMP. Any likelihood that it will see the light of day?
I totally understand the “server-first” approach that the devs took with PlexAmp (mentioned above), but the smart features like Sonic Playback, etc. are probably pretty trivial in terms of the amount of data they consume. Especially if most or all of the music is downloaded offline already. This could be a combined approach. Browse library like normal when offline (no need for a downloads tab, maybe only to be able to delete from storage specific songs/albums?), and when online - automatically download any new songs (switch in settings for preferred via Wi-Fi or data only) and you can do all of the smart stuff like normal. This could be a more hybrid approach instead.
Bumping again. Now that “downloads” is one of the features that requires Plexpass to (continue to) use, it is especially important that “downloads” work as sensibility as possible.
We want download capabilities to be increased and streamlined. Thanks
I could swear that I saw an option to download unlimited quantities of songs in a PlexAmp release a while back. Was I just dreaming? Was that just a test?
I wish this were true, however, there is still a 24 hour PER ITEM limit, which mainly affects playlists. Individual songs cannot be downloaded, only “artist shuffle”, “artist radio”, albums or playlists. So, the limit has little to do with the required amount of data, because there can be a sizable difference between, say, low bit rate mp3 files and flac files, but 24 hours worth of either would be allowed. I’m advocating for the elimination of limits, but I think they claim it would require some major reworking of the app.
There’s also the issue of multiple downloads of identical tracks, but that’s a whole different thread
Ha! just found it… The Cache size descriptions. I was apparently fantasizing about that beign for downloads!
+1 Here. 24hr limit on a playlist is absolutely unnecessary on modern mobile devices and should be (at least optionally) removeable, if not completely removed. Similar limitations do not exist on any modern music streaming apps, they typically just allow you to limit total size of space used for downloads - so if I want to download 50 or 100GB worth of music onto my devices, I’m able to do so.
It is year 2023 now, still there is 24 hour limitation. I have to ask, is it so technically hard to remove the restriction？In the settings, we can choose the Cache Size up to 64GB, let’s say 5MB per song, then we can cache more than 10000 songs.
If we play 10000 songs from server and cache them all, next time Plexamp uses the cache to play 10000 songs locally, then where is the limitation?
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Keeping another ancient thread alive for an odd feature request given that it’s a weird limitation. Curious as to why a limit on playlist download length would have ever been implemented. Either way, this limit should have been never implemented and removed yesterday, or at least give the option to toggle it. Please don’t go the Apple route and impose limitations “for our own good”. You would insult the intelligence of your entire user base by doing so.
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Ah I missed Simon’s post for the explanation. So now I’m curious what system you use to sync remote db’s and downloads. Or maybe make the source code public and allow us to help improve PlexAmp. I would love the player to not just be this unique and niche thing, but to be a fully usable player to entice the rest of the music enthusiast community. I use Plex because I’m already involved in its ecosystem through my peers and their media management, and I dove in for the music management since I already had the premium pass. Given that the base Plex does a pretty good job of that already, it would be great to have practicality and usability added to the player. You don’t need to set it apart. It needs a solid base usability first, and then you can add the unique flair later.
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I wonder if this was brought up in the Fireside
Pending a positive reply that this is at the top of the list for implementation in next release.
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I feel like this has been beaten to death, because I remember opting against using Plexamp a few years ago when I realized I could not easily save my entire library offline. +1 for removing the 24hr limit. It’s funny, because I was thinking the same thing about the cache. If I play every song in my library, and it does not reach the cache limit, do I basically have it all stored on my device? But then that most likely is not accessible when offline.
Anyways, I am giving Plexamp a try now. For the edge cases, I will just use Syncthing and Poweramp. But I would really like to see a concise resolution to this longstanding issue.
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This is stupidest limitation I’ve heard of and suggests that the downloads feature was not sufficiently considered before implementation.
I was a user of spotify for years, I’m often in a places where cellular reception is poor or not existent at all. Spotify have this good feature called “offline mode” where you can play music without any connection to the internet - it wast the best feature for me.
Since I have my own songs library and I have plex media server configured - I’ve decided to give plexamp a shot - and I’ve loved it… Until I discovered that more than half of my songs had not been synced. Previously, I suspected that my downloads were corrupt or that there was a problem with my plex server configuration - I would never thought that here is songs limit in the playlist download.
Proper downloads support is really a feature people care about - I don’t care if syncing takes a lot more time - some slow syncing is always preferable to broken syncing - especially when the app doesn’t inform the user about said limit.
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When you go into Plexamp and ask it to download a playlist, it asks you how much music you wish to download, by default it’s at 24 hours, you can reduce this.
I don’t like this limitation either, but it clearly tells you there’s a limit.
When you go into Plexamp and ask it to download a playlist, it asks you how much music you wish to download, by default it’s at 24 hours, you can reduce this.
At least on iOS - it doesn’t. Heres how it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SP7DMH2Cvs
Basically - I have “Bsmart” playlist with 654 tracks. When I click “Download”, no notification is shown and plexamp downloads only 367 tracks (~24h)
Ah, that’s interesting. In English after hitting download, I get this screen with a slider in the middle which you can move.
Ahh, I think I know what’s going on here - is that a smart playlist?
After creating one on my server - I get the exact same dialog, however nothing for normal playlists - this is probably a bug.
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I just confirmed that behaviour. Manual playlists do not offer the ability to limit playlist download “size” by duration and default to a limit (probably 24 hours) without informing the user.
