Tagging unwatched content

[rottonpeech 0]

This has probably been asked before, and there is probably a tool/job for this, but I can't find it, so any help/direction is appreciated. 

 

My media catalog started at a mere 4TB and has grown beyond 80TB and I'm looking to start trimming older unwanted/unwatched content vs adding more space. Unfortunately I'm not really sure how to do this. Surely there are some analytical tools that can help identify useless content. 

 

Clearly I can just start whosale deleting items I'm not personally interested in, but as like many others here, I have family members who are not as keen to give up their hold on that cartoon series they watch back in the 90s that has never been accessed since it was added to their download catalog 3 years ago.

 

So if I had a way to tag content as unwatched in 12/18/24 months (or something like tha) then I could combine those tags with a "fireproof" tag for things that need never be deleted, then i could have my import processor remove the oldest of the unwanted content if it runs into space issues.

 

Again, in sure that someone has probably already done this or something similar. 

Thanks! 

[Neminem 1519]

I move media to new libraries like 

Movies will be deleted 2025-01-01

Tv Show will be deleted 2025-01-01

Ect.

Then they have time to ether watch/object or loss

[visproduction 315]

Command line windows drive or folder

dir /s /ta /n *.mp4 > results4.txt

dir /s /ta /n *.mpv > resultsv.txt

Use the result files to decide which videos to remove.

[pwhodges 2012]

If people insist you keep things you reckon they'll never watch, I suggest you transcode them down to 1Mbps and regain some storage space that way.  If they never watch them then the quality loss doesn't matter, and if they do and complain, just tell them that's how you were able to save them.

Paul

[rottonpeech 0]

I love the commentary, and I surely know how to go about locating things manually to delete. Perhaps the ask was harder than I expected. As an automation engineer, I imagined a method that could consume some analytics from emby, and make a list on its own, which then could be accessed by the import processor to free space as needed. 

 

If there really is nothing like this available, I'll just build one. I was kinda hoping someone already did this is all. 

[Happy2Play 9781]

Nope there is nothing available that I know of.  There are a few scripts/topics on deleting watched content but don't think anyone has looked at up watched content.

 

terrelsa13/MUMC: Multi-User Media Cleaner aka MUMC (pronounced Mew-Mick) will go through movies, tv episodes, audio tracks, and audiobooks in your Emby/Jellyfin libraries deleting media items you no longer want. (github.com)

But may want to look through this forum section for what others have done.

Tools and Utilities - Emby Community