Separately from the metadata issue, I think the Downloads feature could use a fair amount of love (notwithstanding the first reply in this thread saying that the Downloads feature was a big focus this year). When the last major revision of the Downloads feature was released, a lot of people reported a lot of bugs and missing functionality, particularly when the download is occurring via remote access (for example, I’m downloading a movie to watch on my train home). To me the most crucial issues would be:
- Allow pause/resume for downloads
- Fix whatever causes some downloads to sometimes restart at 0% (I suspect some of this is iOS storage limitations)
- Provide more useful feedback to users about the state of downloads than just the %age bar. Speed, ETA, and notifications when something isn’t working would be a bare minimum.
- Basic controls like “automatically delete downloaded movies X days after watching” would be useful, and in keeping with how most video apps work.
A lot of great features Plex has added over the last 5 years seem to have the problem where the feature launches and it’s a good first attempt, but people immediately flag issues and it takes years for iteration. Obviously resources are limited and you can’t let perfect be the enemy of the good, but it seems like maybe there’d be a benefit to setting the threshold for a viable feature launch a little higher even if it means fewer new features.
Thanks.
