Download: sequential instead of parallel

[diskostu]

Hi there,

just a minor enhancement request: if you have many downloads, it can take quite a while for the first one to finish as the downloads are parallel. Perhaps you could add an option so the downloads can also be sequential?

[danieloeh]

That makes a lot of sense for large downloads like episodes, but in my opinion this can slow things down when downloading many small files like feeds or images. So i will probably make it the default behavior for episode downloads instead of adding another checkbox because i would like to avoid that if possible.

[diskostu]

Okay, sounds great!

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:54 PM, danieloeh notifications@github.com wrote:

That makes a lot of sense for large downloads like episodes, but in my
opinion this can slow things down when downloading many small files like
feeds or images. So i will probably make it the default behavior for
episode downloads instead of adding another checkbox because i would like
to avoid that if possible.

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[cz8s]

maybe change the behavior to download a maximum of 3 files in parallel ? I often use the wireless to download the latest podcasts before I leave. So I want all of them as fast as possible. I think, downloading three in parallel would be a good compromise ?

[diskostu]

Sounds like a good compromise indeed.
Purely sequential download is perhaps not the best idea as sometimes,
servers are slow ;) but 3 parallel should do it.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Christoph notifications@github.com wrote:

maybe change the behavior to download a maximum of 3 files in parallel ? I
often use the wireless to download the latest podcasts before I leave. So I
want all of them as fast as possible. I think, downloading three in
parallel would be a good compromise ?

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[danieloeh]

In the current version, the maximum number of parallel downloads is 4. I stream most of the episodes i listen to, so i'm not sure what's the best solution in this scenario. But changing it to 3 wouldn't make such a big difference, would it?

[diskostu]

I wasn't aware of the fact that the current maximum is 4. Yesterday, I
started about 15 downloads (small episodes) und every download had the text
"downloading...", so I assumed there's no maximum. Maybe you could change
the text to "queued..." for the queued items?
Am 22.10.2012 21:37 schrieb "danieloeh" notifications@github.com:

In the current version, the maximum number of parallel downloads is 4. I
stream most of the episodes i listen to, so i'm not sure what's the best
solution in this scenario. But changing it to 3 wouldn't make such a big
difference, would it?

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[danieloeh]

That's strange. When i started 5 downloads on my device, the fifth one didn't have any status message at all. In the new version (0.9.5.3) all queued downloads have the status message "download pending". I have chosen that instead of "queued" because i have already had that as a translated string resource.

[diskostu]

Sorry Daniel, you're right: pending downloads have no status (in 0.9.5.2),
just checked that again. So everything's fine ;)
Am 23.10.2012 11:47 schrieb "danieloeh" notifications@github.com:

That's strange. When i started 5 downloads on my device, the fifth one
didn't have any status message at all. In the new version (0.9.5.3) all
queued downloads have the status message "download pending". I have chosen
that instead of "queued" because i have already had that as a translated
string resource.

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