diff --git a/bin/server.dart b/bin/server.dart
index 78bde4e..591620f 100644
--- a/bin/server.dart
+++ b/bin/server.dart
@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@ import 'package:shelf_router/shelf_router.dart';
 import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
 import 'package:args/args.dart';
 import 'database/database.dart';
+import 'models/user.dart';
 import 'api/auth_handler.dart';
 import 'api/users_handler.dart';
 import 'api/playlists_handler.dart';
 import 'middleware/auth_middleware.dart';
 import 'middleware/security_middleware.dart';
+import 'services/cleanup_service.dart';
 
 void main(List<String> args) async {
   // Parse command line arguments
@@ -47,6 +49,39 @@ void main(List<String> args) async {
       .addMiddleware(authMiddleware(db))
       .addHandler(usersHandler.router.call));
 
+  // Initialize Cleanup Service
+  final cleanupService = CleanupService();
+  // Target system temp directory (often used by FFmpeg/Dart)
+  cleanupService.addTarget(Directory.systemTemp);
+  // Target local logs/cache if they exist
+  cleanupService.addTarget(Directory('/app/data/logs'));
+  cleanupService.addTarget(Directory('/app/data/tmp'));
+  
+  cleanupService.start();
+
+  // Admin Routes (protected)
+  apiRouter.mount('/api/admin', Pipeline()
+      .addMiddleware(authMiddleware(db))
+      .addHandler((Request request) {
+        final router = Router();
+        
+        // POST /api/admin/purge
+        router.post('/purge', (Request req) async {
+          final user = req.context['user'] as User?;
+          if (user == null || !user.isAdmin) {
+             return Response.forbidden(jsonEncode({'error': 'Admin access required'}));
+          }
+          
+          final result = await cleanupService.runCleanup();
+          return Response.ok(
+            jsonEncode(result),
+            headers: {'content-type': 'application/json'}
+          );
+        });
+        
+        return router(request);
+      }));
+
   // Create handlers
   final staticHandler = createStaticHandler(
     webPath,
diff --git a/bin/services/cleanup_service.dart b/bin/services/cleanup_service.dart
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f10703
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/services/cleanup_service.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:async';
+
+class CleanupService {
+  final List<Directory> _targetDirectories = [];
+  Timer? _timer;
+  final Duration _defaultMaxAge;
+
+  CleanupService({Duration defaultMaxAge = const Duration(hours: 24)})
+      : _defaultMaxAge = defaultMaxAge;
+
+  /// Add a directory to be monitored
+  void addTarget(Directory dir) {
+    if (!dir.existsSync()) {
+      try {
+        dir.createSync(recursive: true);
+        print('CleanupService: Created missing directory: ${dir.path}');
+      } catch (e) {
+        print('CleanupService: Should monitor ${dir.path} but it does not exist and could not be created: $e');
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+    _targetDirectories.add(dir);
+    print('CleanupService: Monitoring ${dir.path}');
+  }
+
+  /// Start the periodic cleanup task
+  void start({Duration interval = const Duration(hours: 6)}) {
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    print('CleanupService: Starting scheduler (Interval: ${interval.inHours}h)');
+    
+    // Run immediately on start
+    runCleanup();
+
+    _timer = Timer.periodic(interval, (_) => runCleanup());
+  }
+
+  /// Stop the scheduler
+  void stop() {
+    _timer?.cancel();
+    print('CleanupService: Scheduler stopped');
+  }
+
+  /// Trigger a manual cleanup
+  Future<Map<String, dynamic>> runCleanup() async {
+    print('CleanupService: Running cleanup task...');
+    int deletedCount = 0;
+    int freedBytes = 0;
+    List<String> errors = [];
+
+    for (final dir in _targetDirectories) {
+      if (!dir.existsSync()) continue;
+
+      try {
+        final result = await _cleanDirectory(dir, _defaultMaxAge);
+        deletedCount += result.count;
+        freedBytes += result.bytes;
+      } catch (e) {
+        print('CleanupService: Error processing ${dir.path}: $e');
+        errors.add('Error in ${dir.path}: $e');
+      }
+    }
+
+    final summary = {
+      'status': 'complete',
+      'deleted_files': deletedCount,
+      'freed_bytes': freedBytes,
+      'timestamp': DateTime.now().toIso8601String(),
+      'errors': errors
+    };
+
+    print('CleanupService: Cleanup complete. Deleted $deletedCount files, freed ${(freedBytes / 1024 / 1024).toStringAsFixed(2)} MB');
+    return summary;
+  }
+
+  Future<({int count, int bytes})> _cleanDirectory(Directory dir, Duration maxAge) async {
+    int count = 0;
+    int bytes = 0;
+    final now = DateTime.now();
+    final threshold = now.subtract(maxAge);
+
+    try {
+      await for (final entity in dir.list(recursive: true, followLinks: false)) {
+        if (entity is File) {
+          try {
+            final stat = await entity.stat();
+            // Check Modified AND Accessed time (if available) to be safe
+            // Ideally we use modified time for temp files
+            if (stat.modified.isBefore(threshold)) {
+              final fileSize = stat.size;
+              await entity.delete();
+              count++;
+              bytes += fileSize;
+              // print('CleanupService: Deleted ${entity.path} (Age: ${now.difference(stat.modified).inHours}h)');
+            }
+          } catch (e) {
+            // Ignore individual file errors (locked files etc)
+            // print('CleanupService: Failed to delete ${entity.path}: $e');
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      print('CleanupService: Failed to list ${dir.path}: $e');
+      rethrow;
+    }
+
+    return (count: count, bytes: bytes);
+  }
+}