How to search and delete season premiere episodes

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#1

Continuing the discussion from First episodes of classic (80's, 90's) TV series:

As the link above discusses, I created an advanced pass to record all season premier episodes so I could see what recorded and decide if I wanted to setup a pass for the series. It was nice since I was able to record series that I'd forgotten about.

Now I have many season premier episodes that I want to delete from the library. I'm unable to figure out an easy way to search for these episodes then delete them. Anyone have an idea how to do this?

#2

Reminder that On Later will list these regularly so that you can browse them.

New Shows and New Seasons.

#3

I don't know if there is an easy way using what is already available in Channels itself.

The way I would do it is by writing a short script to retrieve the requested information from the library.
If it doesn't take too much time, I might be able to throw one together by the end of the weekend. No promises. :wink:

#4

I don't know how many other people have this issue so I'm not sure I'd spend much time on this @mjitkop. I could use the @maddox method and just on the couch for some time and press buttons. I have 102 season premiere episodes based on doing a finder search for S01E01 AND filename=".mpg".

#5

In the search field in the web admin use this:

tags=[Season Premiere]

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#6

This only gets a few. Lots of the S01E01 are not tagged with "Season Premiere". Probably because they got recorded with crappy Pluto guide data.

#7

Use the Virtual Channels rule editor to make a rule to get episodes with season 1 episode 1 and switch to the advance editor to see the syntax and use that in your search.

#8

That works to get the search to return the episodes, but from here I cannot select the episode to delete. Even though hovering the cursor over the episode displays the play arrow, clicking on it does nothing. I think this is a long ago identified bug.

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#9

Ooof it is.

We’ll get that fixed up soon.

I want to make search like this work in Manage as well, which would allow for all the batch management.

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#10

Bumping this issue. I'd like to Marie Kondo my library in the new year so I would love to be able to do a keyword search on recordings and then be able to batch delete movies and shows.

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