Podcasts. Retain episodes information without the media files.

[frisno-b]

It's summer and once again, time for some podcasts.
I found that my library mostly contains podcasts without episodes, because; I've listened to all of them, or maybe I just deleted them, or never downloaded them, hard to tell.

I know I can delete the information of a file and leave the file intact, but personally find the opposite to be more useful.

It would be sweet if I could:

Populate audiobookshelf with information about all the episodes, without downloading the media files.
Have the option to retain information including "listen/not listened" when media file are deleted.
Schedule retrieval of new information without downloading media file.
"Download to server" button/function, maybe even from the client.
Batch deletion of orphan files and/or repopulate GUI with non deleted files.
Show "listen/not listen" episode count in relation to publication rather than downloads.
Mark an episode to be ignored when auto/batch downloading.
Setting to allow "auto download of next episode to server" when playing current.
Add local rating/comment or a general text-field that cannot be overwritten by the match function.

This would enable me to have a greater selection without committing unnecessary storage.
I would also retain full information of podcasts that looks good but I don't want to listen to, saving me from constantly rediscover that I don't like them.

That would make What I can do today a bit easier.

Periodically pretend to add them again, in order to see information about episodes.
Downloading all episodes and manually delete what I don't need every time I fancy a re-listen.
Enter every podcast and use "Find Episodes" to restore/delete hidden files.
Keep notes about the podcasts in a separate document or use tags for personal notes.
Buy more storage to keep files I may never touch and have all "Archived" podcasts set to "1 episode limit" to gain access to the number of published episodes and seasons.
Be grateful for everything that audiobookshelf already do, well this last one isn't hard, I do that anyway.

[nichwall]

Duplicate of #3085

ABS is designed to serve local media files and not as a dedicated podcast server/passthrough system for files not stored on the server.