Many times I’ve had a download that’s almost completed fail and when I retry, starts downloading from the start, this makes it more difficult. Especially when i have poor internet coverage.
Would appreciate if it cos resume download from where it left off and not start from the beginning.
Could you take a look at the Download logs to see if there is any errors we can track?
It is the little ‘clock’ like icon.
AntennaPod already automatically retries each download 3 times, keeping the partial download. Only if all three fail, it deletes the download to avoid partial files piling up
Poor internet availability is the reason that I also get this. Hence, downloads can be very slow and so restarts are more ‘costly’ in terms of UX.
My question would be: specifically how are the 3 retries attempted (interval times etc) and does this suit those with intermittent or patchy internet access? I ask as programmers often get used to better/‘rarely off’ connections and can assume that’s typical or universal.
Perhaps a setting would be useful to change numbers of retries, or specifically allow a retry (e.g. after you climb a hill/tree!).
Better yet: How about basing the retries upon quality of download capacity, rather than a set number? Slow, patchy downloads could be automagically given more attempts at restarting.
