I’ve had this problem consistently for several months, and it’s driving me bonkers.
I’ve never been a heavy user of the Downloads function for music, but I’d like to break away from iTunes for my locally-stored songs on iOS.
So when I’m home on Wi-Fi (or even on cellular), I download an album, and it usually works. However, almost every time I open the Plex app, it wants to “re-download” these albums, and often gets hung.
I get why there needs to be some sync between downloads and my Plex server, but it’s like it wants to re-download the entire album, and often times fails with “Error downloading xx items”, even though the album was properly downloaded the day before!
This happens if I use the original FLAC file, or I have Plex transcode to MP3. At this point, I don’t care about lossless or not, I just want to download music once, and not have Plex choke every time I open up the app. TIA!
