Option to delete local file when item is completed

[revilo951]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Having to manually delete items that are finished.

Describe the solution you'd like

A local setting in the app that automatically deletes the file(s) when the item is completed.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Could also be made a server-side setting so the local files being removed are "synced" across devices, ie if I have a podcast downloaded on my tablet and phone, and i finish it on my phone, the next time my tablet syncs with the server it deletes it's own local copy of that file too.

[hellofaduck]

It's very good idea, i think about it just today. I've listeting now a big collection of little novels instead of full-sized books, because of this i need to download and then delete 2-3-4 files at day and i found this a little annoying when you doing this on day to day basis, it's not a poblem but it's stupid :) i think autodeletion of already readed books is very obvious feature, my vote for this thing!

[NeskireDK]

I really like the suggestion of auto deleting once completed.
Its generally a pain deleting books atm.

[advplyr]

Automatically deleting the items downloaded on the mobile app is a feature I think we can add.

I'm not sure about automatically deleting podcast episodes from the server on completion because then we have to tie those episodes to a specific user. If you have a server with multiple users we would have to know which user completed state matters with this episode. We could have logic that it only applies to the root user but this doesn't feel like a clean solution.

[advplyr]

Related to #175

[revilo951]

I'm definitely talking about only removing from mobile devices (limited storage etc). If you have more than one user, removing items from the server becomes more complicated. (Maybe it could be done once all users have marked an episode as finished, but I like to keep all my episodes as a bit of an archive, in case the podcast goes away)

[Mega-Volti]

Definitely a great idea. Not only for mobile devices, also as a per-library setting server-side.

I wouldn't want to delete my books on my server after listening to them, but automatically deleting podcasts on the server after listening would save a lot of manual steps. With a server-side library setting, it would be possible to enable this for the podcasts library but keep it turned off for the book library.

[tonyedwardspz]

Being able to delete completed local podcasts in bulk on the android app would by useful for the usage pattern described in #958. Deleting each episode individually is cumbersome, and deleting the entire local series isn't ideal.

Rather than / along side automatically deleting listened to episodes as desbribed above, a button/option somewhere in the app to delete completed episodes would simplify managaing offline first podcast listening.

This would fit well into the same menu as Manage Local Files & More info on a podcast series page. Alternativly, it could be on the manage local files views, as another option next to "Delete Local Item".

[snonux]

Also, deleting automatically on the server, would be great. But that will only work when all users have completed it, i guess.

[fede843]

I would be happily using this feature if available!

[mathmaniac43]

I think that deleting automatically from the app is more important, but deleting on the server would be helpful too. Perhaps users could "subscribe" to podcasts that they want to ensure are stored on the server until they have a chance to listen. An admin user could control the settings for whether episodes are kept indefinitely, or pruned once all "subscribers" have had a chance to complete the podcast.