Hi,
I recently turned on Autodownlaod.
My question is. From a UX Standpoint: Can anyone explain me how this Feature is meant to work?
For me, i enabled it.
A) Settings
- I let Episode limits at default
- i took the work of going though each of my 55 podcast’s settings and disable autodownloading on most of them ( since i dont wont all of them and they would cluter my waitinglist)
- I did realise the episode limit is something you could globaly adjust if you ran out on space.
- i did not see any option on how many episodes should be kept or downloaded from which respective podcast.
- i did see that automatic deletion is a redundant setting to me since i have regular autodeletion on
- i did not understand, what the options inside the automatic deletion option of each podcasts settings would do. (something like “delete oldest after X downloaded episodes” is what i would expect there
B) Experience
- It did not work
- after some days i managed to get a popup telling me that episode limit is reached
- i increasd it
- it smashed my waitinglist full of episodes that are a year old by now also a lot of them are in the list but not downloaded
C) Fauxpass
- while writing this post and going thou all the settings repeatedly i realized, that i did not turn of the autodownloading i did only turn of the update of the metadaa (fetch new episodes) (so now i correctet that back and forth again)
Disclaimer
So i don’t konw if i did something terribly wrong, if something went terribly wrong, or if this is intended behaviour.
But i would like to get clarity on that and from that on we can think about how we feel a sensible UX would Work, and workout FR’s based on that.
Infos
Im on 2.1.4 Fdroid, Android 7.2.1 LOS / Galaxy S3