[Enhancement]: Invert podcast episodes download order

[Phantomwise]

Type of Enhancement

None

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...).

Ex:

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).