Turn podcast setting "Include in auto downloads" simple switch into three-state switch

[newtogithubandihavelotstosay]

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App version

3.3.2

Where did you get the app from

F-Droid

Problem you may be having, or feature you want

Current behavior

Enable Automatic download
All new episodes in your feed gets downloaded
Have to manually uncheck podcasts that you don't want to have automatically downloaded out of the 100s of podcasts you're subscribed to

Suggested solution

ℹ️	Implementation instructions
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Suggested behaviour

Enable Automatic download
Manually check the podcasts that you want to have automatically downloaded instead of unchecking 100s of podcasts that you don't want to have automatically downloaded

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

No response

[ByteHamster]

I agree that it might be a bit unexpected. In case you didn't know yet, you can use multi-select to disable automatic downloads for all subscriptions at once. No need to open the settings screen of every single one of them.

[keunes]

We discussed at Needs: Decision. A true 'reversal' of the approach is not desired.

However, we would propose as follows:

• At podcast level, turn simple switch into three-state: Global default, Off, On
  • Default: Global default
• Global setting stays the same
  • Default: as is (disabled)
• Remove the 'auto-download' checkbox from the 'Podcast preview' screen where you subscribe. This makes the interface simpler, also ahead of the dropping of this separate preview screen as discussed in Add/play single episode without subscribing to podcast #4710, and the user can simply change their global value and if needed change the setting at podcast level after.

This is difficult to implement, however, as currently the global setting is a master switch - if it's turned off none of the automatic download code is run. In the to-be situation, though, significant changes would be needed to change this so that the code will still be run if global is disabled and local is enabled.