Gray out unavailable media when on mobile data

Feature description

I would like if media were grayed out when on mobile data, and allow me to select and play those over mobile data if desired.

Problem solved

Sometimes on mobile data I am willing to use data to play a specific song and the automatic switch to offline only hiding songs entirely prevents me from doing that without changing settings.

Brought benefits

This would allow me more flexibility without compromising data usage avoidance.

Device type

Phone

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If I’m understanding your request correctly, the “Offline Status indicator” can be used for exactly this. You’ll be able to see which songs are not already downloaded so that you know it will require data/WiFi to play a song.

Settings > Interface > Media lists > Show offline status overlay


As far as automatically hiding songs when offline, I think that is controlled by:

Settings > Offline, cache, and download > General > Automatic offline mode


Make sure that your source filter options are also set correctly.

Source Filter (the funnel icon on Home page) > Uncheck the “Hide media…” options

This does indeed sound like what I’m looking for, but after enabling the offline status overlay and disabling the filter, albums and tracks that are not downloaded reappear but do not have any visible differences.

Am I missing what that should look like?

I’m not entirely sure what they look like, since all my media is local. I stole this picture from the Discord, which I think is the overlay in question.

This should be visible in the Library screens immediately, but Home page rows actually have a separate toggle from the global one.

Settings > Interface > Home page > (tap the gear icon next to an entry) > Show offline status overlay (option is near the bottom)

This will show check marks for “Offline available” items like so:

Yeah that’s close but not quite what I want given that this is an album centric view. I often have part of an album available for offline listening. I’d like to be able to see which songs are cached and which ones will require a download.

In that case, there is:

Settings > Interface > Media lists > (Second) Additional track information in lists > Offline cached

As you can see, this adds indicators (in my case, checkmarks) to the tracks inside the Album page: