I had a quick look, I think I could find a use for it but what I’d most be interested in is a dry run spitting out a list of missing / low res / low bitrate / stereo (I much prefer 5.1+), perhaps old codec, etc. media. Like many I have my own standards for what needs to be how good and so forth.

Ideally I could edit said list and put it back in as an active search list (perhaps chunking and prioritizing as well and iterating the process). Seems like this is 90% of the way there, any chance of an enhancement ?

if you haven’t yet, I’d check out Configarr and the trash guides as a baseline to create profiles that upgrade media to a certain standard so simply hitting the search button will give you what you want. That’s likely the best option, though it could theoretically be done in Fetcharr itself.

I don’t want to balloon the project but I had an idea early on that people would want customization if I released it, so I thought about adding a sort-of “plugin” system where Fetcharr loads jar files from a directory and they get an API to access and use as needed.

I haven’t figured out the details yet. That’ll be another weekend, or a contribution from someone. The idea and skeleton is there, though.

I don’t want to balloon the project

Fair cop, and no I haven’t really dived into Configarr and the trash guides (although I vaguely remember coming across them), oh joy, another rabbit hole. I do try to keep a simple stack, and what I have has served me well for years. But thanks, no need to reinvent the wheel if that handles my use case.

Having smaller projects with specific scope that do something well and can be plugged together is always preferable to some sprawling monstrosity. Used to be called the Unix way (pipe sed into awk etc.) and could stand to be revisited today. Best of luck.

glad to send someone on another Sunday rabbit hole! To be clear, Fetcharr is essentially automatically hitting the “search” button for you on a few semi-random items in your library. If your profiles are set up well, it will naturally handle the rest itself.

That said, there is a plan-in-my-head for “plugin” support so I don’t end up shoving a bunch of stuff into one app but still allow anyone to make something they need. If profiles don’t fit your use-case then that’ll be an option at some point in the future.

So, unless I didn’t dive deep enough, Configarr / Trash guides is mostly about setting up quality profiles and media paths and so forth, something I long ago sorted out to my satisfaction.

What I guess I was after was something to find stuff that has fallen through the cracks, highlighting stuff that doesn’t meet my standards and seeing whether I care enough to go looking for upgrades.

Strangely there doesn’t seem to be a simple app to run ffprobe over your library and populate a database for querying video quality, maybe I’ll get around to knocking one out one day, but today is not that day.

in Media Management (click Advanced) there’s an “Analyze Video Files” option to get more data about your actual files. If I remember correctly this also re-tags downloaded media with your profiles if it was mislabeled. If you already have quality profiles set up and gated (you can add profiles that look for these attributes, like 7.1 or 5.1) then you can simply hit the search button on your media and rely on the *arr app to do the rest. If you don’t want to upgrade stuff that’s already satisfactory to you then you can do the same thing with the “Cutoff Unmet” filter. Fetcharr allows you to do either of these with the new USE_CUTOFF environment variable.