Looking for a way to add all tracks in a playlist (not the playlist itself) to auto-offline cache

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Hey all,

I know this might sound like a weird one, but hear me out!

First of all, my understanding of auto-offline cache is you can back up this setting with your Symfonium backup, then on a fresh install (like a new phone) it will autodownload everything in auto-offline cache on sync with that provider.

If true…

I have 320gb of music on a microSD. I just found out about auto-offline cache. It takes me about an hour to mark everything for download (so far!) when starting from scratch. I would like to avoid this in the future. I have made a smart playlist that is all my offline cached music, for shuffle with ReplayGain. I know I can mark the playlist for auto-offline cache, but unless I’m misunderstanding something, that won’t make it so if starting from scratch, to have the contents of the playlist auto-offline cache, since from scratch the playlist would be empty (due to no downloaded media, since it’s a smart playlist with the offline cache tag).

Is all this correct? If so, is there a way to quickly tag all my current and future downloaded media as auto-offline cache? I’ve also noticed that when browsing, I can only add the artist to auto-offline cache, not specific albums or if I only want a few tracks from an album. Is this intentional or am I missing something?

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Auto cache is to auto cache new content not to mark already cached content.

You are not using the proper tool and just generate lots of battery usage to check all your rules for 0 benefits.

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Well, it’s like I said, I just found out about it. And also like I said, it seems I can only add artists to auto-cache, there are many where I just want an album or two, and sometimes where I want a lot of full albums then want just a track or two from some other albums from an artist in autocache. Unless I’m missing something there’s no way to do this, it is artist only.

I’m also not really sure what you mean about generating a lot of battery to check rules. Are you referring to using a smart playlist that shows only offline cached media?

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Again you are not using the proper tool …

Auto cache is to cache future media. Why would you enable auto cache on an album, there’s no new song that will magically be added to the album …

Create a normal playlist with auto cache and put the content you want to cache on that playlist as it seems to be what you want to achieve …

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Ah k. It must be me misunderstanding auto-cache then. I thought it would be used on stuff to always download even on a new install/new storage location. I had looked at the support article entry but it didn’t seem to clarify enough for me either.

Is there some kind of workaround to achieve what I want, maybe somehow using my existing “offline cache” smart playlist, without having to go through all artists again (which would take an hour or so) and add everything I want to a seperate playlist that isn’t tagged for offline cache, so that that playlist could be cached and backed up for future use? If not I can find the time to add everything I want to a regular playlist later this week…

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Copy as normal playlist.

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Done. Thanks so much!