Allow users to select, by title, season, television show, media library or global setting a transcoding setting to use to lower the quality of the media item to conserve space. Once the setting is applied the server should do the following. Transcode all selected currently available items. Ideal…

Thanks for re-opening this. At the base of the idea is that this would allow users to manage the space their library consumes. Mostly like the optimize feature - but with the ability to replace the original with the transcoded version if desired. And similar to the “delete watched shows” reduce the …

If your main focus is optimizing the library but only keeping the optimized version… there’s already a suggestion discussing such an option: [image] [Feature Request] Keep the optimized movie version only Feature Suggestions I would be able to provide a way to delete the o…

It’s not exactly the same, but on the same vein. I have voted for that topic.

Media library size management through transcoding

Feature Suggestions

tom80H October 3, 2022, 11:24am 6

If your main focus is optimizing the library but only keeping the optimized version… there’s already a suggestion discussing such an option:

Topic		Replies	Views
Enhancement for Optimize Feature: Transcode Original Feature Suggestions	2	193	August 23, 2019
Library Transcoding (Minimization) Feature Suggestions	2	1314	November 16, 2018
Automatic transcoding based on criteria set for library Feature Suggestions	0	74	February 25, 2018
Disable transcoding per library Feature Suggestions	2	231	February 21, 2021
Feature Request: Transcode Series file to smaller than original Feature Suggestions	11	272	February 14, 2020

Media library size management through transcoding

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