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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 2.0RC2:
- IMPORTANT - EZTV and most of the scene (people that releases the episodes) have decided to stop creating AVI files and serve MP4 instead. TVShows will therefore follow the new standard.
- IMPROVED - If the torrent cannot be saved (for example, the chosen disk is not mounted), the app will try to download it again in the next check.
- IMPROVED - Custom RSS with several shows are now supported.
- IMPROVED - Prepared for a magnet-only The Pirate Bay.
- IMPROVED - Non-episodic shows are better supported now.
- IMPROVED - Updated localizations.
- FIXED - MP4/x264 files were marked as HD.
- FIXED - Miso checkins work again.
- FIXED - The application was not opened after an automatic update, now it should open (well, not in this update, in the next one).
Version 2.0RC2:
- IMPORTANT - EZTV and most of the scene (people that releases the episodes) have decided to stop creating AVI files and serve MP4 instead. TVShows will therefore follow the new standard.
- IMPROVED - If the torrent cannot be saved (for example, the chosen disk is not mounted), the app will try to download it again in the next check.
- IMPROVED - Custom RSS with several shows more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
TVShows.prefPane User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Version Downloads:2,781 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:26 Feb 2012 |
| 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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JCH2 reviewed on 30 Apr 2012
Not once has it downloaded a legitimate HD episode, likely because it is depending on the catch phrase "HD[TV]" in the file name. Most us know that's worthless since well over half the release (or more) have those letters in them regardless of what they are.
Next version should definitely find some what to check the show, its runtime and select some basic minimum file size to avoid so much wasted time in get the correct resolution sought for a show. Right, 3 out of 4 times I got to Vuze or a direct search to find this as TVS2 is failing more and more.
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Tdu reviewed on 07 Apr 2012
There really needs to be some more criteria added for searching torrent types. If the HD option is there, then there should be the option to filter by mp4, mkv etc. Just "HD" is a little too general.
Second, I don't know what other people's experience's are, but I find torrents from 'speed.com' very unreliable. Download times are horrible.
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Oasis reviewed on 27 Feb 2012
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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
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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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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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rleebond rated on 23 Mar 2012
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Jetfiredx rated on 27 Feb 2012
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VictorPimentel rated on 23 Oct 2011