For the life of me, I simply cannot get downloads of my music library to work in Plex for Windows so I thought that I would try Plexamp.
I was really happy when I noticed that Plexamp for Android on my Samsung phone was downloading my library and doing so rapidly. However, it looks like downloads are capped out at 24 hours of music. Plexamp tells me that my music library is somewhere around 18 days in playtime.
Is there some specific reason that a download is limited like this? Are there any workarounds?
Here is how I am doing this:
On my Plex Server running on Windows 11, I have a playlist called “All Music” which contains my entire library.
In Plexamp for Android, I am selecting that playlist and choosing to download it to my phone. My entire library (and the contents of that playlist) are roughly 5,800 titles but Plexamp will only download 300 some odd titles (24 hours playback time).
The only stated reason I’ve ever seen for this limitation is “performance considerations.” This topic has been beaten (nearly) to death in the forums since Plexamp was introduced:
another likely reason, is plexamp is not designed or intended for the download and playback of the entirety of a offline/local music library.
maybe it will at some point be capable of that, maybe it won’t.
trying to do so currently, is using the wrong tool for the job.
the whole point of the entire plex ecosystem is not to clone your various libraries to the various clients, but to stream from a central server or servers.
that is my observation and opinion based on the facts of current functionality.
unfortunately if you download multiple playlists and the same track is in two playlists, you’ll end up with 2 copies downloaded which will waste space on your phone.
i currently estimate that this is wasting between 10gb and 20gb of space on my phone.
