Thursday 23 October 2014

8 tips for download manager maximisation.

Thought I'd post a few tips on how to use the download manager. As of 2.2.34 MyPOD has support for multiple file downloads at the same time.


* Use pause downloads (it's at the top to the downloads screen & the notification). This is useful if you need to get bandwidth back quickly to do something else or if you are worried about the app downloading on a paid network (by default MyPOD only downloads over WiFi).
* Note "Download now" will work while downloads are paused. For a quick one off download. it may change the power/wifi options to suit the devices current conditions.
* Use the podcast rating - this is used to determine the order in which items go in the download queue (higher = better). So your highest rated podcasts get downloaded first.
* The top graphic shows overall data (cumulative bandwidth, # download/queued).
When the top progress bar is visible, the cumulative progress is shown total bytes downloaded/ total size.
* An error message is displayed when a download fails and an "!" shows in downloaded progress. (red box) Opening the episode and going to info (bottom) shows the download status and the download location.
* There is also a check for a WiFi logon page - this is still a bit experimental but it simply checks for returned HTML when a multimedia file is expected. Get in contact if you have problems (bugs at my-pod.org)
* Check you storage (settings > storage), MyPOD will aim to fill up to the storage allocation - it may go slightly over in some circumstances. and it doesn't include temp files..
* You can do power/wifi setting for bulk selection from the ... (top right) menu when in bulk mode. As well as dequeue & move to top/bottom.




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