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[Enhancement]: Invert podcast episodes download order #2637
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Originally created by @Phantomwise on GitHub (Mar 4, 2025).
Type of Enhancement
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Describe the Feature/Enhancement
Inverting the download order of podcast episodes to be able to download from the oldest to the newest instead of from the newest to oldest (default behavior).
Why would this be helpful?
Hello !
After adding a podcast, when you go to "Find episodes" and check "Select all episodes", they are downloaded in order starting from the most recent episode. Which means that you need to wait for all of the episodes to finish downloading before you can start to listen, and that might be hundreds of episodes (334 for Welcome to Nightvale...).
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I don't know if there is a reason for wanting to download the newest episodes first, but there is definitely one for wanting to download the oldest first. Like having a slow internet connection. If the episodes were downloaded starting from the oldest episodes, then you could start listening as soon as the first episode was done, while the rest were still downloading.
Definitely not a huge deal, Just a small QoL improvement
Future Implementation (Screenshot)
Alternative 1 : Just change the default download order to start with the oldest episodes. Then the only difference would be in the download queue :
Alternative 2 : Don't change the default download order, there could be something like a button that shows the current order and inverts it when you click it :
Also it would be nice if the ordered was remembered for the current library, to avoid having to change the order every time.
Alternative 3 : Do both.
Audiobookshelf Server Version
v2.19.5
Current Implementation (Screenshot)
The page I was looking at was the download queue for the 334 episodes of Welcome to Nightvale... but I'm not redownloading them just to take a screenshot 😅
Here is another podcast instead (just imagine 327 more episodes in the queue before it arrives at episode 1).
@PhantomPhoton commented on GitHub (Mar 15, 2025):
I would love to be able to download podcasts from earliest to latest in a controlled manor via ABS. I currently have a python script that I run daily that goes through the podcast list and downloads the two oldest episodes, and it was a bit of a pain to do.
Maybe the order should be controlled via the Podcast Type? Episodic could be newest to oldest and Series could be oldest to newest?
@advplyr commented on GitHub (Apr 16, 2025):
It is based on the order they are selected so I added a sort at the top of the modal so you can sort before using select all
@Phantomwise commented on GitHub (Apr 17, 2025):
That's great, thanks ! 😃
@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Apr 27, 2025):
Fixed in v2.21.0.
@notDavid commented on GitHub (Apr 22, 2026):
Hi there, could someone please clarify:
I have a Podcasts series with ~ 200 episodes, and i want to start downloading episodes starting from the first episode in the series. So for example, starting with downloading episode 1, 2, 3... 10 , with a limit of 10.
Is that possible?
It seems, i can only download the latest episodes?
(i don't want to have to download 200 episodes, to listen to the first 10.)
Thank you!