Hi Robbie, In Myriad Manager, if you run a Custom Audio Report (NOT a custom Play Logs Report) and then let it find all carts on your system. Then click the "Last Played" column to sort by Last Played you will then see items showing "n/a" - which means they either haven't ever been played or that their 'recent play history' has been cleared (via the last tab in SmoothEdit) After the n/a's you will then see the carts in furthest played order. You can then select those items that are showing a Last Play date of anything older than a year ago and do your mass delete. As a cautionary note though, if you are using AutoTrack and these items have been added to AutoTrack as Songs or Links then you shouldn't do the mass delete from inside Myriad Manager - if you do, then the Carts will be deleted, but the Song or Link Card will still be left in your AutoTrack database and could still come up during scheduling, or worse, the empty cart could be reused and then you end up with the old song card pointing at the new (but wrong) audio! If they have been added to AutoTrack then you should do this process in AutoTrack instead, but it's slightly different. In AutoTrack v3.1, go into the Cart Browser and click to change it into List mode instead of Grid mode. Then click the Options spanner on the toolbar and select the option to show items that haven't been played in the last X days. There is a big caution here though - and this is why this option was removed from Myriad v3.5 onwards - this report will return all items that were last played over that X days, but ALSO any new items that haven't been played yet - afterall, technically they haven't been played in the last X days either! - and its very easy to accidentally delete all the items that your colleague has been adding ready for his/her show next week  Hopefully the above should get you going though.
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