TVShows

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News (2007-09-10)

The TVShow project is not dead. In fact, a brand new version is being prepared! Stay tuned and subscribe to the tvshows-announce mailing list to be the first to be informed of the next release.

Download

TVShows 0.3.4 (Mac OS X 10.4+)
Source Code: svn co https://tvshows.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tvshows/trunk TVShows

What is TVShows ?

TVShows is a Mac OS X application that automatically downloads your favourite shows. You don't need anymore to manually download torrent files, TVShows does it for you. Manage your subscriptions and preferences from within the TVShows application, and TVShows takes care of the rest: a background process is automatically launched at a regular interval to check for new episodes.

What is not TVShows ?

TVShows is not a Bittorrent client, it (just) automatically downloads the correct torrent file at the right time. TVShows will automatically use your preferred Bittorrent client to download the shows.

Features

Automatic process in background: no need to run the application 24/7; silent and unobstructive
Intelligent: downloads the right episode as soon as it is available
Quality selection: choose a quality setting (Normal, High or Very High), TVShows downloads the best available one

Help

TVShows in 3 steps

Launch TVShows
Subscribe to your favourite shows
Quit to launch the background daemon that automatically downloads new episodes

FAQ

How do I add show xxx to TVShows?
TVShows obtains its information from tvRSS.net, which obtains its information from the VTV and EZTV release groups. As a result, TVShows has no control over what specific shows get released and which ones do not. If you would like to see a show get added, please direct any and all inquiries to the release groups.
How do I set Transmission/Azureus/xxx as my default Bittorrent client?
Download any ".torrent" file, select it in the Finder, do ⌘-I, choose "Other..." in the "Open with" popup menu and select your preferred Bittorrent client. Then click on "Change all..." so that it affects all ".torrent" files.
Do I have to launch the TVShows application after every reboot to start the background daemon?
No. Once you've launched TVShows once, the daemon is automatically launched at regular interval (as specified in the preferences), even if you restart your computer. You don't need to relaunch TVShows every now and then.
How does TVShows knows which quality I want?
TVShows starts by looking if the episode is available with the quality you required in the preferences. If not, it will download the episode by choosing the one whose quality best matches the one you required.
But higher quality episodes are always published later that normal quality episodes?
TVShows knows it: it waits for the high quality episode to be available. And if it's not available, TVShows will eventually download the episode, with another quality.
And what is my preferred quality is not available for a specific shows?
Don't you get it? TVShows is smart. It knows it. It will still download the episodes for you, but with a different quality.

Version History

0.3.4 (04-30-2007)
- Possibly fixed the "Could not download the show list. Are you connected to the internet ?" bug

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