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- totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27can't wait to see this on AppleTV :D
- soopafly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8This looks pretty awesome. Way easier than say setting up Azureus with RSS to get your shows
- xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@wwwdot1jesdotus:
I know someone didn't read the article. - slomotion, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13or you could use the RSSfeedscanner plugin and not have extra programs running in your background
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It looks like a more simplistic and straight forward version of Democracy Player. Maybe the simplicity means it will have less bugs and run a little bit more stable. I'm gonna have to give this a shot.
- thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I've been using this for a couple of weeks now and it works great!
There is a bug that prevents you from subscribing to some shows, but it's in the tracker and is hopefully being worked on. This could really mature to be a great app! - wageslaven, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12LIAR! Nothing "crashes" on OSX! NOTHING!
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@cinnix: I didn't dig it down, but I can understand why people did. That solution is like apples and oranges to this one. With TVShows, you run a super-lightweight daemon in the background, and if a new episode is found, it silently downloads the torrent file, launches your favorite torrent app, and downloads it.
To have your method work like this one does, one would have to keep azureus running all the time, which is a lot of unnecessary bloat. You're also confined to Azureus as the only app that can do it, and some people's hatred of that program runs deep. So you see, the solution is so different that it can't be compared to this.
My optimum setup is TVShows running, set to download torrent files to my ~/Movies folder. Transmission is set as my default client, set to delete the original torrent files. So whenever one of my shows posts a new episode, the very lightweight client opens, cleans the .torrent trash out of ~/Movies, and downloads the shows directly there. No lag for whatever game or app I happen to be running in teh foreground at the time. Then for torrents where I want to pick and choose which files to download, or torrents I know are going to be hard to get connections for, I open them in Azureus manually. And I think that kind of use is what TVShows is more geared toward. - OneManArmy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Sounds promising. I have yet to test it to see if it delivers.
- alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, when you're trying to manage 10+ shows a week... you forget about some...this way, you just come home, open up your Completed Downloads folder and watch whatever's new
- DanielNielsen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It does, i have been using it for a week now, and it works. Every time there is a new ep and i open azureus it adds the newest episode
- cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why the hell is this guy getting dugg down? He made a valid point, one which I was also wondering. There is a third party plugin (approved) for Azureus called "RSSFeedScanner". It has been around for a long long time, much more sturdier and full featured compared to this. If you happen to use Azureus as your main client, it will be a bit more kosher using this rather than an external client.
Nonetheless, give it a try. All he is stating is that it is a very good alternative, and I see no reason why he should get Dugg down for that.
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=rssfeed
[edit: late, but i still feel I should have made that point. To many frikkin sheep on Digg that folloq the Diggdown trends lately. Digg is turning into a hive mind] - noclothes1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Azureus
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6xtorrent doesn't have transport encryption - which, with my ISP, is a must.
Let me re-iterate what I'm looking for: An OSX app that sits in the background, subscribed to an RSS feed. Applies a regular expression to filter the shows that I want, then downloads the linked .torrent file to the directory I want.
Democracy looks cool, but I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for. Checking it out, anyways.
Oops... meant to reply to the above thread. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6GOLD MEDAL!
- erictheninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@meshman
Have you been on vacation for the last 2 weeks?
@soopafly
It's really easy. Initially doing it was a bit of a pain, but you no longer have to take the thing apart to get it to work. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+4Looks like it probably pulls it from a fixed RSS feed site (unless there is an option screen not being shown).
- thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4tvrss.net is where it gets the feeds from. And other clients DO support RSS on the Mac, but I have yet to find anything that can discriminate the feeds based on episode number and quality.
- erictheninja, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't really understand why you got dugg down. Azureus and rssfeedscanner do what this program does. The only downside is that it's Java so anyone w/a slower machine or an inadequate amount of RAM is going to groan in pain.
- meepus, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10 www.tvrss.net anyone? Has RSS not been supported by Mac BT clients until now? I've been doing this with utorrent forever.
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3@jhunt
Very good find! I don't quite get what the progress bar is for, since it only downloads the .torrent file. But this looks very promising. - hode, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Democracy
http://www.getdemocracy.com/ - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -1/+4I do the same thing (with a bit more flexibilty like specifying that you only want the HD version, you only want the shows from a certain season and/or starting with a certain episode number, etc.) with the RSS feed reader built into uTorrent. I find http://www.tvrss.net/shows/ is a great place for feeds. But you can also tell it to look at specific sites like btjunkie or mininova. Works very well.
However, I wish these kinds of applications would get a bit more tivo-like. I have yet to see a torrent client (or torrent-aware media center) with a good "keep at most" type functionality. - jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3RSS is the only feature missing from rTorrent on OSX, so I was excited about this, until I installed it and found that you can't use your own RSS feeds. In fact, I have no idea where it will be downloading these episodes from. I try to steer clear of public trackers, so this isn't good for me. :(
Does anyone know of a stand-alone OSX program like this but allows you to use any RSS feed? - meepus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3tvrss.net lets you get an RSS feed for whatever search query you can come up with, and you can specify things like '720p' in them. Did you guys really not realize that?
Here's an example, for 24 in 720p: http://www.tvrss.net/search/?distribution_group=combined&show_name=24&filename=&date=&quality=720&release_group=&mode=simple
feed: http://www.tvrss.net/search/index.php?distribution_group=combined&show_name=24&filename=&date=&quality=720&release_group=&mode=rss - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3@dasluvaluva
You're also missing the time lag factor. When a new episode gets posted, it starts downloading immediately. So there's no lag between "clicking on it" and being able to watch it. A lot of people use torrents like they use tivo. To record stuff and time shift it by hours or days. I hardly ever watch shows the same day they air. I don't even bother remembering when they air. The RSS feed remembers for me. - cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm true. Its all down to what sort of 'torrenter' you are. I'm a member of a number of private trackers that ban pretty much everything besides Azureus, plus I have to maintain a strict download ratio to remain members of them, so for myself I keep Azureus open almost all the time. But in situations other than that, I honestly couldn't think how it'd be that useful.
On a sidenote, thanks for not flaming, and taking time to write that. I've been starting to worry that Digg comments were becoming somewhat similar to that of YouTube. - orvtech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4do i see a brilliant future for appletv sales ?
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, looking around in the article, it recommends something called ted (torrent episode downloader) for people on Windows -- but there's a Mac version too. You can specify rss feeds, so it shows promise. I'll have to try it out when I get home.
Here's the TorrentFreak article on it:
http://torrentfreak.com/subscribe-to-tv-shows-with-torrent-episode-downloader/
Or, the official site:
http://www.ted.nu/ - seven5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is just a gui on top of a big ruby script. i think you might be able to use your own urls or feeds for it.
If anyone has a bitmetv invite they want to send me, i'd love to try to get this working with something else.... - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2@jhunt
I've thought about making a similar app for Windows. Althought uTorrent's builtin RSS feed reader is great and does exactly what I want 99% of the time, I'd like to soup it up a bit. Though the external approach would lose some features like being able to set the download priority for a feed.
I've found Democracy to be way too buggy for my tastes. - treed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Plugin for what?
- nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Azuereus does the same thing via one of the couple of RSS plugsins for it... ON ANY platform.
It's what I use on OSX already to do this. - whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2@dasluvaluva
tvrss.net is what I frequently use, so I know it has some things missing. Unfortunate that you can't add additional feeds, especially for private sites. Then again, I guess when you want it to "just work", you sometimes lose out on functionality. - eggo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd LOVE to see something like that combined with a StumbleUpon type setup to pull in new shows based on my interests. Anyone know if such a beast exists?
- hode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2FYI Democracy can be a little buggy. Most of it works great, but then something annoying will happen, like a torrent not starting for hours or the interface deciding you're Chinese (and you aren't).
You'll think "this could be THE killer app if they'd just work a little more..." But it's free, so what can you do? - thejokell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes but this app will download 720p if it's available, but if not it will download the next highest quality. Any other apps do that?
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2@meepus
The Mac app does let you specify quality (though I'm not sure what strings = "720p", etc.):
http://torrentfreak.com//images/screenshot11.jpg
But it doesn't let you natively specify the tvrss.net URL. - elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish this has an option in the preferences for you to specify an RSS feed of a private tracker
- whiledo, on 03/25/2009, -2/+3@thesaladman
Yes. - nixfu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Funny, thats what I have already been using for a long time on my MAC to do this.
- orvtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so is there a CLI client/script that we can use to ssh on the box and leave it running on the background for this (appleTV with a bittorrent client via console such as bittornandomanyncourses.py but with syndication of some sort to rss)?
- hode, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2At first glance, I don't see a way to add more shows to the list with this app (no Young and The Restless for my girlfriend). I'm going to stick with Democracy for now.
- NetworkShadow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Looks cool but it crashes on launch for me when it starts checking the show list.
- zakool21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe I don't understand how this works exactly, but once you reboot your computer do you have to re-start the background daemon (ruby)?
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see you have failed to read the "on OS X" part of the title.
Or read the article. - Hackzaur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As if I need another reason to convince people to get a Mac!
- jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, good find. If you view the package contents, somewhere in there is a file "TVShowsConstants.rb", with a line:
FEED = "http://tvrss.net/search/index.php?show_name=%s&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss"
I'll have to try to tinker with this and see what I can come up with. - ErniePC12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try checking your permissions...
Just a guess , I hope you figure it out. -
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