Cannot download music to my android phone?

[toptalent]

Sorry if this is a very easy question but I've done my searches and could not find the answer.

I'm a new Subsonic user and this is what I've done so far:
1. Installed server on my PC. Setup networking and media folder etc etc.
2. Created user with all the permissions.
3. Removed "wma" from the transcoding option as I want to stream/download the intact lossless wma (which is my entire library)
4. Installed the Android app on my HTC One X and took a test drive (streaming).
5. Completely impressed and satisifed. Made donation and licensed server.

Now for the life of me I could not figure out how to download music (instead of streaming or just caching) to my phone. When I long press the files/folders etc all I have are the play options. No "download" option from anywhere.

Am I missing something. Your help will be greately appreciated.

[jic2000]

The option you want is "Pin" in the long-press menu - it'll download the folder/files to a folder called subsonic on the root of your SD card.

[toptalent]

The option you want is "Pin" in the long-press menu - it'll download the folder/files to a folder called subsonic on the root of your SD card.

Thanks! Wow I totally assumed that option was to "pin" an album on top of the list like a pinned thread in a forum. Is there a reason not to use the world "download"...

Also I don't see the pin option on individual songs. Does it mean I must download an album at a time?

Edit: Another thing I noticed is that even after I pinned the album not all the songs would download immediately. It only downloads the song that's being played plus the the number of songs that's set in the cache setting. Is there a way to force download all the songs selected?

Also how do I delete songs from the phone? Subsonic doesn't seem to have an option of deleting songs from storage. Do I just delete with a file browser? Will that cause any problem when I use subsonic again? (Like it think's a file is still on the SD card when it really isn't any more)

[jic2000]

If you set your server to "Offline" in the home tab, the app has some features for downloaded file management, including the ability to delete songs (as well as "unpin" them, the purpose of which I haven't quite deciphered yet). It shouldn't mess anything up if you delete files in a file manager either, though (or at least it hasn't yet for me). For individual songs, you have to use the checkbox on the left side of the list row for the song, then scroll to the bottom of the list to find the button to pin your selected songs. I haven't run into a problem with songs not downloading, except when the app gets killed while your downloads are in progress - it leaves them in an "unpinned" state (with an orange splat mark), and you have to re-pin them manually to get them to download. I've only been using DSub (instead of the official Subsonic app), so it's possible I haven't come across your problem because it's fixed in that app. I'd definitely recommend checking it out either way, the interface is a bit nicer than the official app and there are several added features and smoothed-out interface inconsistencies.

I'll go ahead and take this opportunity to shamelessly plug myself as well - I'm currently (slowly but surely) working on a new Android Subsonic app from scratch, and the first feature I'm really focusing on is better download management. I'm planning to have a very alpha version ready in a week or two - it'll only support server browsing and download management (no media player component yet, that's coming next), but the interface should (hopefully) be a bit more intuitive than the official app, since it closely follows the Android 4.0 design guidelines.