Feature request: Limit the number of downloaded podcast episodes.

[Bart Cerneels]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:17, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> You don't mention which version you are using. Some time ago I
> commited a change to delete downloads when the episode is no longer
> shown in the list. i.e. if you limited a channel to 5 episodes max 5
> files should be in the folder.
> If it's not that is a bug... would be nice if it's reported.
>
> But let us know your amarok version first.
>
> On 05/05/2010, Arvid Piehl Lauritsen Böttiger <bottiger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello there.
>>
>> I'm writing to this list because the KDE bug tracker is a horrible piece of
>> software from a usability point of view, and I'm too stupid to make a
>> feature request for Amarok there.
>>
>> The podcast support has improved by orders of magnitude in the last couple
>> of releases, but there's still one feature I really miss. You can limit the
>> number of podcast episodes to show, but you can't make Amarok delete old
>> downloaded episodes automatically. I'm a big fan of podcasts and I hate to
>> stream them, but a couple of weeks ago my podcast folder grew to over 20 GB!
>> I manually deleted most of them, but when I look again today it had made a
>>  comeback with 7.3 GB. This seems a little ridiculous for a music player to
>> use around 10 GB of hard drive space.
>>
>> Since the most common case, by far, is to only listen to the most recent
>> episode I suggest that Amarok as default only keeps the 10 most recent
>> episodes in its poscast directory.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Arvid
>>
>

Just checked: it's working in 2.3.1.