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Victor Pimentel
TVShows is a Mac OS X application that automatically downloads torrents of your favourite shows. You no longer need to manually download torrent files, or find a working RSS feed for each show you wish to subscribe to. TVShows does that for you. Simply select your subscriptions and set your preferences from within the TVShows application and we'll take care of the rest. TVShows uses a lightweight background process which automatically launches at a regular interval (chosen by you) to check for new episodes.
Features:
Features:
- Background Process: There's no
What's New
Version 2.0RC:
Improved:
- New support forum. It contains some articles about common pitfalls and support discussions.
- New button to refresh a cover if it did not download correctly (i.e., it is blank).
- New plist keys to customize when to check from additional sources if EZTV/VTV didn't release the episode and when to download the SD version if the HD version is not available (ResortToAdditionalSourcesInterval and AnyVersionInterval). By default, they are set to 12 hours and 18 hours. If you want to customize them, see our knowledge base.
- Automatically set the magnets option if The Pirate Bay is unreachable.
- Automatically deselect unsupported options when selecting the magnets option.
- Updated localizations, adding Korean.
- Miso synchronization works again.
- Now the "Use additional sources" is respected, so unselect it if you want to avoid rars and folders.
- The SD/HD fallback should work now, so if the HD/SD is not released in 18 hours, the SD version will be downloaded instead.
- Automatic check after awaking was working erratically.
- Added support for feeds without dates.
- Memory leak that caused too much memory consumption for TVShowsHelper.
Version 2.0RC:
Improved:
- New support forum. It contains some articles about common pitfalls and support discussions.
- New button to refresh a cover if it did not download correctly (i.e., it is blank).
- New plist keys to customize when to check from additional sources if EZTV/VTV didn't release the episode and when to download the SD version if the HD version is not available more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
TVShows User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:54,725 |
| Version Downloads:3,693 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:17 Nov 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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TVShows is a Mac OS X application that automatically downloads torrents of your favourite shows. You no longer need to manually download torrent files, or find a working RSS feed for each show you wish to subscribe to. TVShows does that for you. Simply select your subscriptions and set your preferences from within the TVShows application and we'll take care of the rest. TVShows uses a lightweight background process which automatically launches at a regular interval (chosen by you) to check for new episodes.
Features:
Features:
- Background Process: There's no need to run TVShows constantly. A silent and unobtrusive background process will download new episodes as soon as they are available.
- Quality Selection: Choose your preferred quality settings (Normal or HD) and TVShows will download the closest one available. E.g., if a show is not available in HD in the next three days of emission, then the normal version is downloaded.
- Show List: Stop hunting for individual, working torrents and RSS feeds. TVShows does all the hard work for you. Just search for the show then click Subscribe.
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Anthony Plourde reviewed on 07 Feb 2012
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JCH2 reviewed on 13 Dec 2011
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TVShows doesn't act alone. It only downloads .torrent files, and then those .torrent files need to be processed by your torrent downloader, i.e., Transmission, Bittorrent, uTorrent, Vuze, etc. I always recommend Transmission, but it is designed to work with any of them.
Just in case, let me explain what this software does: once you subscribe to a show, it runs in the background and it automatically detects new episodes and starts downloading them without your interaction. It is not designed for downloading episodes now, but for downloading episodes when they are released.
I'm not implying that this software philosophy is perfect for everyone's needs (far from it), I only try to be constructive here.
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You might consider looking at the issues related to downloading. Perhaps there are settings the user needs to adjust some cases. As much as Vuze has some serious issues, getting what I'm after isn't one of them, and that comes first.
http://support.tvshowsapp.com/discussion/new
Thank you!
swings back reviewed on 10 Dec 2011
TVShows downloads .torrent files. You need to have a torrent downloader, a recommend you Transmission:
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
After that, TVShows will start its downloads there. Then, there are three types of video files: .avi (normal/SD), .mkv (HD) and sometimes .rar files.
For the first two you can use VLC for example to play them:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
For the rars, you need another app to decompress them:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
Then you can play them with VLC.
Cheers!
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Intel iMac, OSX 10.6.8
There is a bug in betas previous to 10 that prevent the upgrade process (it's in the release notes). To install this new version you need to disable TVShows, install the new pref pane and re-enable it. It will work much better, I promise :)
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http://tvshowsapp.com/notes.html
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Algos reviewed on 03 Oct 2011
Sometimes it takes its time to download the torrents. For example, three of my subscribed shows aired on 3:00 or 4:00 AM this morning (my local time). TVShows downloaded them at 21:21 tonight. That's more than 17 hours later. I had already downloaded them manually by then, as I didn't want to wait any longer. With the old TVShows.app I was used to my favorite shows being ready to watch with my morning coffee.
It also doesn't look for PROPER or REPACK versions, so if there was something wrong with the initial release, you have to find the fixed ones on your own.
Don't misunderstand. I appreciate the fact that Victor has taken the time and effort to pick up development. If you read this, please take this as friendly suggestions that could make this great preference pane even better.
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Thank you for your constructive comment. The "delay" you appreciated was due to The Pirate Bay shortage, since feeds now relay on them (they didn't suffer any downtime like that in all year). I was all day out so until eight o'clock I couldn't change the feed sources. Next time the fix will be delivered faster because the mechanism is already in place :)
The external dependency on any site and the handling of PROPER/REPACK versions will also be improved in the next "major" version, but that could take a while since I plan to rewrite the application from scratch.
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Aacuna4560 reviewed on 03 Sep 2011
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(running on G5 dual 2Ghz, 10.5.8)
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Senseinai reviewed on 19 Aug 2011
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That is a common pitfall. You have to add both TVShowsHelper.app AND System Preferences.app to the Little Snitch white list.
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Bigboysdad reviewed on 20 Jul 2011
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http://victorpimentel.com/tvshows/
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If you're using the 2.0 Beta from our blog: contact us through the website, Twitter, or in-app and we'll respond with instructions. I might make an uninstaller eventually but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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http://github.com/mattprice/TVShows/issues
I'll be better able to help you there than in MacUpdate comments. :
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I've always wondered why this is the case. It's very unintuitive and I thought at first TVShows didn't work. I've also occasionally forgotten to close it after making changes and of course nothing downloaded during that time.
I'm sure there's a reason for it. Any details?
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Sheraff rated on 18 Jan 2012
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Thajeztah rated on 18 Nov 2011
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Aacuna4560 rated on 17 Nov 2011
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Pedro Fardilha rated on 17 Nov 2011
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Monkeyjunkey rated on 17 Nov 2011
Rob46 rated on 08 Nov 2011
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VictorPimentel rated on 23 Oct 2011
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shherr rated on 12 Sep 2011
Jlaudio1975 rated on 28 Aug 2011
Blinder rated on 18 Aug 2011