Help with VLC Media Player app

By Betsy, 19 October, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

I have an old iPad mini running on 12.5.7 that I would like to use for music storage and playing. My music collection of about 650 tracks is stored on a USB drive. I can connect this drive to my AirPort Extreme router and the VLC Media app is able to access the files by WI-FI. I can play the songs but I want to download the songs to the iPad. If I double tap a song title it opens another screen then I have to double tap again to get to where there is a download button. I double tap the download button and there is no change to the status. Like if I tap the download button again it still says download, it doesn't change to downloading. So I'm not sure how to proceed. Is it downloading? And can I leave and go start downloading the next song or should I wait? The status of the button never changes from download. There's no progress indicator that I can find and no downloaded status either. But I'm also wondering if I have to do this same routine for every song or is there a way to download all?

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