I understand the limitation of the max 24hr download for a playlist.
But, it would be a nice feature if it could shuffle the tracks that it downloads.
Example: I have a playlist with about 48hrs of music, I want to download 2 hours of that for offline use on my mobile. The problem is that right now Plexamp will only ever download the first 2 hours of songs in the playlist. I would like to be able to refresh or delete and re-download the playlist and get a random 2 hours of music from my playlist.
That only shuffles playing the download songs. This doesn’t change which songs are downloaded. When I hit the refresh button it doesn’t download different tracks. If it downloaded 20 songs, and I delete and redownload that playlist the same 20 songs will be downloaded.
Use a smart playlist; if it’s not sorted, it’ll download a sampling of the bigger selection and you can refresh the item to get all-new fresh content.
Or use a smart playlist which “windows” e.g. (“tracks i haven’t listened to in > 2 weeks”) and as you play them it’ll shift them out and shift new ones in.
I tried a smart playlist (tracks not played in past 2 weeks), but it only applies to the whole library. You cannot create a smart playlist from an existing playlist.
How do I limit the smart playlist to the selected set of tracks? Or limit it to tracks that are already in a playlist?
I have the same issue as denhams here. How I used to use Plex was that I had my 4000+ smart playlist “Top Rated” downloaded to my phone (what else are we using these 128-256gb phones for?) so I didn’t use much data at all.
I have Plexamp set to cache a boatload of songs (20gb or something?) as well as automatically download the next 40 songs in a playlist once I start one. This works pretty good for quick outings or commutes to work, but it’s still not as nice as just downloading all my favourite songs.
Now where this falls apart is I have a 5 hour drive coming up in a couple days and while I can download the 5 hours at the top of my playlist, I’d much prefer to be able to download 5 random hours from the playlist for the drive (probably more like 7 incase I get fussy and skip 100 songs )
Another fun little wrinkle in this setup is that Plexamp doesn’t seem to know about it’s cache when it goes offline. I noticed this while hiking a few weeks back. I should have 20gb of music cached on the phone, but as soon as I left cell range and hit the end of the 40 song preload that started hours ago on the drive out, I was stuck. I had no music. There was no way to tell it to just “play whatever you have on you right now, i don’t care” since I didn’t have any playlists explicitely downloaded.
Now I’m way too in love with all the features Plexamp brings to the table so I’d have a hard time going back to the normal Plex app, but it seems like that’s my only solution for this drive or for hikes.
I understand the limitation of the max 24hr download for a playlist.
I sure dont. Why would you arbitrarily cap downloading a playlist at 24 hours. I put any music I would want to listen to in one playlist and just shuffle it. With that I am at 3 days and counting so more than a third of my playlist cant be downloaded.
In addition if you have tidal songs (or im assuming plex songs where the server doesn’t have sync enabled) it will only look in the first 24 hours if the playlist including songs it can’t download. Which results in less than 24 hours being downloaded. If we are going to use hours to download stuff it should actually download that much when you tell it to.
I’m still unclear around how to actually get new shuffled tracks downloaded. Using latest version on iOS.
If I have a smart playlist, and I pick Download and select a length of time, does it always download the tracks from the playlist in a shuffled/random order, or will it download them based on the order they are presented? It appears to be random after trying it out a bit, but I swear I tried this before (on an earlier version) and it wasn’t clear.
Then, if I later want to replace the downloaded tracks with a new, random set of tracks, if I pick Refresh, will that download a new set, or just redownload load the same files? (Again, it appears to download a new set after some testing just now).
If this is correct, what exactly does the Shuffle option do? Only reorder the tracks that are already downloaded?
Is my understanding correct on this? Can anyone confirm?
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