Antennapod: Autodownload by episode size

[gappleto97]

If parallel downloads are enabled, you can make the most use of it by downloading the largest episodes first. This eliminates much of the time that would otherwise be spent on a single download.

[mfietz]

This doesn't make any sense to me.
When I download in parallel, what difference do file sizes make?

make most of it

in which regard?!

This eliminates much of the time that would otherwise be spent on a single download

I don't even...

These things take hours to implement. Please put in more than a few seconds to submit such feature requests.

[ByteHamster]

Let's assume we have 4 parallel downloads. Episodes A, B, C, D take 5 seconds each and episode E takes 10 seconds. Downloading ABCDE will take 15 seconds. Downloading EABCD will take 10 seconds. So you save 5 seconds.

Anyway, I do not think that this is worth the effort, to be honest.

[mfietz]

This assumes that we download files with constant speed.

If we wanted to prioritize long downloads, we would also have to know the speed of the webserver (assuming that your WiFi or cell network is not the bottleneck; if it is, prioritizing is even less useful).

Thus, I don't see why we should spent any time on this. There would only be a very minor improvement or none.