Option to cancel current task for large playlist

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Option to cancel current task for large playlist #544

Open Misvor opened 1 month ago

Misvor commented 1 month ago

When I want to download latest additions to my playlists, not entire playlist, sometimes DL starts downloading metadata for the entire playlist. And no cancel button is available to stop that. I can only wait for it to end and then cancel.

Allow to Cancel Playlist metadata fetch or allow to cancel whole playlist download at any phase.

Usually stuck looking at this kind of thing.

StefanLobbenmeier commented 2 weeks ago

So from a technical side, we can instantly get the playlist as just a list of a video urls and then populate this lazily. I am also considering pagination, as in only the first 20 videos are fully loaded and you can click to load more