Newbie: Downloading Music library to Plexamp Android Phone

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Apologies for asking a question that has likely come up before but I have searched and can’t find a solution.

Server Version#: 1.41.7.9799
Player Version#:v.12.3

I am trying out Plexamp after many years using Media Monkey to manage and play my media. One of the features of Media Monkey I liked was that it allowed me to synchronise my entire library with my Android phone (useful when there is no network aka off grid).

I have a plex pass.

The streaming side works fine from Plex Media Server, but I can’t find an easy way to download the files to my phone. I tried a workaround which was putting everything into a playlist but it only downloaded a small subset.

I tried to use the download feature on the android but it tells me I need to have a Van but I can’t drive and don’t want one because my mom won’t let me keep it in the driveway.

Please help.

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Plex wont let you synchronize your entire library to your phone easily, this is a design decision. You can download albums or playlists up to a certain length of time.

Edit: Just checked and you can download all albums for a specific artist, too.

When trying to be “hip” with your help messages falls flat.

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for what it’s worth, I thought it was funny!

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Lets just park it there. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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@mottoo On my plexamp I have a playlist called “all music”. I haven’t created this, so I’m sure it’s a default playlist created by Plex.

It seems I’m able to open this playlist and choose to download the entire playlist. Could you do the same?

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Thanks for the suggestion. I am trying something very similar with smart playlists. Not being one to boast but the large size of my collection made the whole sync process a bit cumbersome.

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Could that be because it’s transcoding every song?
I had to change settings multiple places where it was set to transcode on either playback or download

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Thanks for that suggestion - I don’t want to transcode any of my music (it is all in FLAC and I want to keep it that way) and so the answer is, no I don’t think so!

This app seems to get regular updates and so I hope the issue I ran into has been fixed by one of those - will try again.

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