Can't set a playlist to download

ArthurZey
Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:10:33 +0000
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I wish I hadn’t updated the app to the new experience.

The main way that I use downloads is to download a “Smart Playlist” that approximates “On Deck”, so that when new episodes of TV shows I’m watching are added, they get automatically downloaded to my mobile devices, so that I can watch them on the go without using mobile data.

On the previous version of the app, I was able to set a playlist to download, and so I would get all future episodes of any show that was “On Deck”.

In the new experience, I don’t see an option to set the playlist to download, so I would have to manually set individual episodes/seasons/shows to download. This is quite frustrating and almost not worth the trouble.

Thankfully, the Android app doesn’t seem to have been crippled in that way yet. EDIT: Yep–the Android app is now broken in this respect, too, as of 2025-04-10. And the progress indicator on downloaded content that was migrated stays at zero, even though the number counts up, and it’s also disjoint from the main entry, so it doesn’t sync its progress. Yikes, this is a disaster.

I guess this is mostly in the spirit of feedback, but if anybody knows of a workaround, I’m all ears.

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