Tried smart downloads for the first time as I’m going soon on a trip and I’d like plenty of locally-stored music for my flights and other out-of-connection situations. On very swift home WiFi, plugged into phone charger. Around 3MB/s, which I’ve not seen since I left DSL behind a few decades ago. Then it just stopped after 5 albums, 5h of music when I have space for almost 100x that, and I specified it on the smart downloads screen. I interacted with the various screens a bit, and somehow downloading restarted. Still very slow.
Finally, the “smart” selection seems “recently played” rather than “most played” or anything I could try to configure.
Potentially very useful feature for us travelers, but it really needs a lot more polish. Considering getting an offline player app instead and go through the pain of selecting manually albums to download instead, or reviving the Python scripts I used to select music do download to my DAP.
It’s a combination of various factors. Personally, I like that it ensures that recently played stuff gets downloaded, because I am more likely to listen to recently played stuff again rather than, e.g., “most” played stuff from 3 years ago.
I think part of your issue is that you just enabled it. I have it enabled all the time, my download space is always full, and the stuff it downloads is quite reasonable. And I can still choose other things manually. It’s not very slow for me either if ARC is in the foreground (it is slow in the background but I am on iOS where this is expected and it does not bother me because it can do its thing whenever)
It’s very, very slow even in the foreground, on a charger. In the last 10 hours it managed to download 13 albums even though it was left on a charger on my nightstand most of that time.
Yes, puzzling. I have my Roon server on a very capable Ubuntu box, everything on a robust wired/WiFi UniFi LAN that gives me zero trouble. I’m getting a few albums/day.
