Is there a way to mark specific episodes for deletion?

[a-abella]

I have two scenarios where I need to clean up after mistakes:

I created a feed for a whole channel without a filter. This pulled in all videos including their YouTube Shorts which aren't really suitable as podcast material. Lesson learned, I set a filter for minimum video length to avoid getting the Shorts.

Second mistake, after setting custom_format = { youtube_dl_format = "worstaudio[ext=m4a]", extension = "m4a" } on some videos with alternate language audio tracks it pulled in an audio track for a different language. So I need to amend that to { youtube_dl_format = "worstaudio[ext=m4a][format_note*=original]", extension = "m4a" }.

In this case how do I prune the shorts and tracks with incorrect audio? And for the ones with incorrect audio, how do I re-download them now that I have a corrected format setting?

What I've tried

So I discovered this flow that at least addresses the first scenario:

• Stop podsync
• Delete the files associated with the Shorts
• Delete the podsync db from the mounted/persistent volume
• Start podsync
• Podsync will re-query all feeds, but will see files already present for discovered video IDs. The files that were deleted will be redownloaded.

To address the second scenario I would need to locate all files that have improper audio tracks (tbd if I can discover that from CLI somehow) and delete those as well, then preform the same DB drop and re-download.

[mxpv]

This isn't currently possible with podsync.

How it works:
Episodes are tracked in the database with one of these statuses:

• new - Just discovered, ready to download
• downloaded - Successfully downloaded and available
• error - Download failed, will retry on next update
• cleaned - Downloaded but later removed from disk (won't be redownloaded)

The update logic only downloads episodes with new or error status, so episodes marked as cleaned are skipped.

We probably could add some CLI commands to list and skip episodes from database.
This would let you identify unwanted episodes (like shorts or wrong audio tracks) and mark them to prevent redownloading.

Feel free to open a feature request if this would be useful.