I’m looking to sometimes enable automatic download.
I get a lot of episodes in my inbox because I have numerous subscriptions some of my subscriptions are for newscasts where I really only want to download and listen to the most recent and others are for things like how stuff works where there are many many back episodes I’m going through.
Some podcasts I’m actually up to date on and are released only a couple of times a week. I would like those to automatically be downloaded and entered in the queue. There is a setting to automatically put them in the queue rather than the inbox but because I have automatic downloads disabled because of the news programs I don’t listen to most of the available episodes I would like the ones going directly to the queue to automatically download but I can’t seem to override the default setting which is do not download.
Under subscriptions I can queue it to the queue rather than the downloads but can’t seem to enable the download portion.
Is there a better method for me doing what I want to do or am I missing a button somewhere or is this actually a feature request?
If I read this right, I think you’d want to enable auto-downloads at the global default level - Settings, Downloads, Automatic Download, Automatic Download and set that on.
Then for one of these podcasts you don’t want it to auto-download but queue it, visit the feed settings, sure New Episodes Action is Global Default, and Include in Auto Downloads is off.
I do this with a couple news feeds, and either pull my preferred one and manually download, or choose one of the others in case my favorite isn’t available for that day/time.
I’d really like it if adding an episode to the queue also downloaded the episode. Otherwise you have to manually go in to the queue and download the episodes. It would be good if Antennapod could do things that the user wants a bit more automatically. Why would you add an episode to the queue if you didn’t want to play it? So why not download it at that point?
AntennaPod has this feature, but somehow the other way around. Instead of downloading the things you enqueue, it enqueues the things you download. This ensures that we don’t need each setting twice for both directions.
Queuing the things I download would be great, just haven’t quite figured out how to do that.
In larger context, I’m not interested in downloading most of the things I’m subscribed to. Of instance, I only really
want to download and queue the most recent of the available news podcasts that I’m subscribed to.
Because I’m (relatively/nearly) current on Ridiculous History I’d like to download and add to the queue automatically.
I’ve got global settings enable for all (subscribed) podcasts but many are set to put in inbox and have
“include in downloads” disabled, I have downloads enabled for Ridiculous history and its set to move to
the queue - however it ends up in the queue but is not downloaded.
I’m missing some setting but I’ve been unable to find what I’m looking for. Is there a document that has this
info that I’ve missed, or can someone give me the steps I need to take?
I just click the episode’s download button from Home or InBox and the episode is automatically added to the queue and removed from the InBox. No special settings required.
Ah, as the other listener had said, I’d expected the download to be implicit if the episode was added to the play queue.
I’m already using it as designed, so no changes to be made.