I use Plex for watching stuff. My *arr stack is set up to send new movies/tv eps to libraries on an SSD.

Every couple of days I manually move anything watched to a library on an HDD for long term storage. I have Plex set up so that the TV and Movies libraries combine the two locations.

I think you can get a list of watched stuff from the Plex API. I could probably write a script to automate the workflow but if there’s a tool out there that already does this there’s no point in reinventing the wheel.

Anyone seen or heard of anything that would do the job?

  • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    12 hours ago

    Why not just have everything on the hard drive instead? If you did want to write a tool you could use the Plex webhooks, but I haven’t heard of anyone wanting to do this before.

    • jobbies@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      21·
      12 hours ago

      Speed - the SSD is nice and quick but anything on the HDD buffers. Its not a bad suggestion though, I might try it out.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        11 hours ago

        HDDs are plenty fast enough to play movies. It sounds like you have another problem.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        11 hours ago

        Any drive should read faster than media playback. I’d check the actual read speed and playback logs to make sure you’re not having other issues.