The Job Queue

Every download and conversion in Spark Tray runs as a job. When you start something from a utility (download a video, convert a batch of images, transcribe a file), it's added to a shared Job Queue and runs in the background. You can keep using other utilities, or close the window to the tray, while jobs run.

Open the Job Queue from the System section of the sidebar. It has two lists:

• Active — jobs that are queued or currently running, each with a live progress bar and status message.
• Recent — jobs that have finished, failed, or been canceled. Use Clear finished to tidy this list. Your recent history is remembered across restarts.

Job statuses

Per-job actions

Depending on a job's status, you'll see buttons to:

• Cancel — stop a queued or running job.
• Retry — run a failed or canceled job again.
• Open — open the finished file in its default app.
• Reveal — show the finished file in File Explorer.
• Copy log — copy the job's detailed log to your clipboard (handy for troubleshooting).
• Remove — delete a finished job from the list (does not delete the output file).
• Log — expand to read the job's step-by-step log and any error detail.

Running several jobs at once

Spark Tray can run multiple jobs simultaneously. The maximum number that run at the same time is the Job concurrency setting (see Settings ▸ General). Extra jobs wait in the queue and start automatically as slots free up.