Doozer 2 Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Under my user account I can sync a music album to another folder at a reduced file size. Then my wife, using her account, wants to sync that album for offline access. When she selects that album to sync, how do I know it is pulling it from the sync folder I created? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Hi, are you saying you first used folder sync, and then she downloaded from a mobile app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doozer 2 Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Yes. My music is stored in very high quality. I wanted to create a copy of it in a smaller file size to sync to mobile devices. So if I use folder sync to create the lower quality copy from my user account, can others sync from that lower quality copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doozer 2 Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 Yes. My music is stored in very high quality. I wanted to create a copy of it in a smaller file size to sync to mobile devices. So if I use folder sync to create the lower quality copy from my user account, can others sync from that lower quality copy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37112 Posted August 10, 2018 Solution Share Posted August 10, 2018 It depends. They don't get to pick which copy to sync from. The system will automatically pick based on their download settings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doozer 2 Posted August 10, 2018 Author Share Posted August 10, 2018 I see. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 It depends. They don't get to pick which copy to sync from. The system will automatically pick based on their download settings. One similar question related to the sync feature: I usually have my media files stored in 1080p which for syncing to my phone simply is overkill, thus I am downloading at a lower bitrate (3 or 4 Mbit) which results in 720p. So far so good. Assuming I am using folder sync to create files at 4Mbit will I then be able to download those files - without the original file being transcoded again - when I choose 4Mbit for downloading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 In theory yes, however this hasn't been heavily tested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 Well, then I will give it a try and report back. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 @@Luke Had a look at it and unfortunately I couldn't get it working. What I did: 1. Installed folder sync plugin 2. Created a path in folder sync 3. Synced three different episodes to the new folder sync path using all available profiles (original/mobile/tv) and set the bitrate to 3Mbit. 4. Tried to download these three different episodes to my Nexus 4 but every single episode was transcoded again before it was downloaded. Any suggestion? Btw... I noticed that using the profile original didn't do anything but a copy of the episodes although the bitrate was higher than the targeted bitrate - 6 vs 3 Mbit. Is this intended? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Thanks we'll test this out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neik 837 Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 @@Luke, anything new over here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37112 Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Not at this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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