tumblrCallback({"tumblelog":{"title":"TVShows 2","description":"The easiest way to download your favorite shows automatically in your Mac","name":"tvshowsapp","timezone":"Europe\/Paris","cname":"blog.tvshowsapp.com","feeds":[]},"posts-start":0,"posts-total":19,"posts-type":false,"posts":[{"id":"67859351159","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/67859351159","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/67859351159\/tvshows-back-to-normal","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2013-11-23 17:05:07 GMT","date":"Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:05:07","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1385226307,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"Bv6UUGcH","slug":"tvshows-back-to-normal","regular-title":"TVShows back to normal","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/replygif.net\/i\/183.gif\" alt=\"Yeah!\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>After a couple of weeks of disrupted service we are happy to announce that <strong>everything is back to normal and working as expected<\/strong>. You may noticed we had several unrelated problems happening at the same time:<\/p>\n\n<ul><li>The 2.1 version final archive was corrupted because of the way we signed the bundle, and we didn&#8217;t realize it until it was too late. For this reason we had to pull it off, but we had resigned properly and put it back online.<\/li>\n<li>The shows database was deleted for a week, so new episodes would not appear. It is now been restored from a backup and new episodes have been added.<\/li>\n<li>The translation files were corrupted, so the 2.1 version was delayed a little bit to fix them.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Sorry for the inconveniences. I couldn&#8217;t invest a lot of time fixing this issue and, because of how the Apple&#8217;s Gatekeeper system works, it required testing it at the same time in several computers, with different versions of OSX.<\/p>\n\n<p>All these issues are now fixed and the app is working smoothly. We still need to manually fix some feeds, and in the following days we&#8217;ll try to answer your support requests. In next crisis we&#8217;ll hope to be able to inform you earlier about it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much for your patience and support!<\/p>"},{"id":"66724221584","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/66724221584","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/66724221584\/tvshows-2-1-mavericks-ready","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2013-11-11 23:43:16 GMT","date":"Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:43:16","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1384213396,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"IKmlqS0C","slug":"tvshows-2-1-mavericks-ready","regular-title":"TVShows 2.1: Mavericks Ready","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/f8e1eadbe82d8fc48b5be09510b13ee7\/tumblr_inline_mw4h6o96Pf1qiaydk.jpg\" alt=\"Mavericks, another release\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Mavericks is fully supported in the 2.1 version<\/strong>, after fixing a couple of nasty bugs. The most outstanding was a crash related with corrupted subscriptions that killed the background helper every time it checked for episodes.<\/p>\n\n<p>So you can understand why this update is <em>very recommended for everyone<\/em> in Mavericks or planning to upgrade shortly. Probably, the in-app upgrade system will automatically update your copy of TVShows, but you can manually get the latest version in the home page.<\/p>\n\n<p>Two languages have been fully added to the list: Hungarian and Frisian. The first should work without any issue, but the second is a bit special because it doesn\u00b4t seem to be supported in MacOS X and it will require some manual work. If you don\u00b4t see the new translations for Frisian, open the Terminal app (\/Applications\/Utilities\/Terminal.app) and type these commands:<\/p>\n\n<p>First make a backup of your second preferred language (in this case is Dutch, en is for English, de for Deutsch, etc):<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>mv ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/nl.lproj ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/nl.bak.lproj\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<p>And then move the Frisian translations to that language:<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>mv ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/fy.lproj ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/nl.lproj\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<p>After that, if you reopen the preference pane, you will see the changes.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you want to revert it, type these two commands to recover your backup:<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>mv ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/nl.lproj ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/fy.lproj\nmv ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/nl.bak.lproj ~\/Library\/PreferencePanes\/TVShows.prefPane\/Contents\/Resources\/nl.lproj\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">Download latest version<\/a><\/big><\/p>","tags":["Mavericks"]},{"id":"30723489566","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/30723489566","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/30723489566\/tvshows-2-0-finally-here","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2012-09-02 13:41:00 GMT","date":"Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:41:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1346593260,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"TaHHBEc2","slug":"tvshows-2-0-finally-here","regular-title":"TVShows 2.0: Finally here","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m9q629ayY01qiaydk.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Lion is supported at last\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>The <strong>2.0 final version was long due<\/strong>, and I&#8217;m happy to announce that today we have a sufficiently mature version to call it that name. As state before, I will spend no more development time in this version, but I will work in my free time in the revamped TVShows 3. And, giving that I don&#8217;t have too much free time, there is no ETA for this third version.<\/p>\n\n<p>Regarding this final version, the most important thing is that <strong>Mountain Lion is finally supported<\/strong>. One of our contributors, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/victorpimentel\/TVShows\/pull\/52\">jacaru<\/a>, <strong>fixed a crash when adding new shows<\/strong>. Also, we have signed the app, so that Mountain Lion will not complain when installing it. Unfortunately, <strong>ML notifications cannot be natively supported<\/strong> in this version. If you want to have that, please check out <a href=\"http:\/\/barkplug.in\/\">Bark plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Another important thing happening under the hood is that we have changed our feed system (another time). Now we don&#8217;t use Yahoo Pipes, and we don&#8217;t depend exclusively on The Pirate Bay or EZTV, but we have a system in place that integrates a lot of sources and that will update episodes even if one of them is down. And that allows us to be able to show a lot more episodes in the episode list. Basically we show all episodes that we know of, so instead of the latest 10 episodes we are showing in some cases dozens of episodes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Moreover, Diego Barros <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/victorpimentel\/TVShows\/pull\/42\">improved the search field<\/a> in the show list, so you can use your keyboard to navigate within the show list. And finally, many thanks to our translators.<\/p>\n\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">Download latest version<\/a><\/big><\/p>","tags":["Mountain Lion"]},{"id":"18333756219","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/18333756219","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/18333756219\/2-0-release-candidate-2-i-hate-february","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2012-02-26 20:28:25 GMT","date":"Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:28:25","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1330288105,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"8HmS2yDJ","slug":"2-0-release-candidate-2-i-hate-february","regular-title":"2.0 Release Candidate 2: I Hate February","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m00osz3wyH1qiaydk.jpg\" alt=\"I agree with Pippo\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>February did not end yet and I already know it will be my less favourite month of the year. Every third party TVShows relies on had some kind of fundamental change or downtime.<\/p>\n\n<p>First of all, I couldn&#8217;t give the attention the app needed because, well, I don&#8217;t have a lot of free time now. I have a lot of ideas for TVShows 3 and it seems that I&#8217;ll have to wait until the summer to code it.<\/p>\n\n<p>Secondly, my server had a lot of issues and downtime. I migrated it to Nginx to get better performance (it did), but PHP is not a great fan. I&#8217;m trying something new, but it this continues, I&#8217;ll have to contemplate other options.<\/p>\n\n<p>And then <strong>The Pirate Bay<\/strong> decides to completely <strong>drop .torrent links<\/strong> from their popular torrents, leaving magnets as the only option. We get all our links from them, but TVShows has now another way to get .torrents from the magnet links. <strong>So you don&#8217;t need to use magnets if you don&#8217;t want<\/strong>, in fact, .torrent will continue to be the default.<\/p>\n\n<p>On top of that, the <strong>scene<\/strong> has agreed to <strong>change the release format from AVI to MP4<\/strong>. We depend completely on them, so you&#8217;ll notice that TVShows will start downloading MP4 files (at least for the most popular shows).<\/p>\n\n<p>On the good news, <strong>TVShows is a little more intelligent<\/strong> than before, by handling some edge situations. When a .torrent file cannot be downloaded, it keeps trying to download it in the successive checks. This means that you can select an external disk or a network disk and it will not fail when the disks are disconnected. Non-episodic shows and custom RSS containing more than one show should now work better.<\/p>\n\n<p>Finally, a word about our support forum: <strong>please use it wisely<\/strong>. Before posting a new discussion, check if another user has reported the same problem, and if you have something useful to say, add it to that discussion. Avoid creating new discussions because we are really nice people and we want to answer everyone, and every minute spent answering you is another minute that we cannot spend improving TVShows. Specially, I want to thank Cristina to keep helping me by answering most of the people.<\/p>\n\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">Download latest version<\/a><\/big><\/p>","tags":["magnets","avi","mp4","The Pirate Bay"]},{"id":"12921878794","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/12921878794","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/12921878794\/2-0-release-candidate-almost-there","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-11-17 11:18:00 GMT","date":"Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:18:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1321528680,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"QRtzwh6j","slug":"2-0-release-candidate-almost-there","regular-title":"2.0 Release Candidate: Almost There!","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lusxqzJt5r1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Green arrow\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>12 betas have been more than enough.<a href=\"#footnote-13\">*<\/a> So it is time for the <strong>first Release Candidate of the final <em>stable<\/em> 2.0 version<\/strong>. Depending on unexpected bugs, the final 2.0 version will be released very shortly, i.e. next week, i.e. before december. That&#8217;s a promise. Only bug fixes have been added to this version, so don&#8217;t expect to find any cool new feature. It will <em>only<\/em> work better.<\/p>\n\n<p>Most of the work this month has focused on the server. For your interest, TVShows feeds are now in our servers, so now we can control sort of everything. That also means we can add almost any show we want. But it also means that we have to tweak the server, and I was fairly busy this month.<\/p>\n\n<p>About those nasty bugs, I will refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/notes.html\">our release notes<\/a>. Most of them were regressions, like downloading SD fallbacks, respecting the &#8220;use additional sources&#8221; option so rars were avoided, fixing Miso check-ins, memory leaks, etc. For advanced users, <a href=\"http:\/\/support.tvshowsapp.com\/kb\/tvshows-customization\/advanced-customization\">this behaviour can be customized<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Indeed, the only new thing is the little refresh button added to the shows covers. If you click it, it will re-download the cover. Why? Because sometimes a cover is blank because it wasn&#8217;t downloaded correctly, so with that button you may download it again correctly.<\/p>\n\n<p>On localization news, <strong>Korean<\/strong> has been added by <strong>Mpstyle<\/strong>, and of course all languages were updated by <a href=\"https:\/\/webtranslateit.com\/en\/projects\/874-TVShows-2\/people\">our awesome translation team<\/a>. Particularly, the french translation is now much better.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you keep having problems, please use our newly <a href=\"http:\/\/support.tvshowsapp.com\/\">support forum<\/a> to report those bugs. You can select if you want to keep the conversation private or public. I recommend you to create it publicly, so that other people with your problem can discover and apply a workaround by themselves.<\/p>\n\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">Download latest version<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n\n<p><strong id=\"footnote-13\">*<\/strong> <small>I have nothing against 13. 12+1, I mean.<\/small><\/p>"},{"id":"10691093487","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/10691093487","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/10691093487\/2-0b12-magnets-benvenuto-italia-and-bug-fixes","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-09-26 17:20:00 GMT","date":"Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:20:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1317057600,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"SJCvhijn","slug":"2-0b12-magnets-benvenuto-italia-and-bug-fixes","regular-title":"2.0b12: Magnets (Benvenuto, Italia!) and Bug Fixes","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ls52ct2Jkg1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Check the preference if you need it\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>New season has begun and a new beta is needed. There are two important bug fixes in this one: the <strong>app didn&#8217;t automatically update the show list<\/strong> in the background, and <strong>Leopard users<\/strong> suffer from crashes when <strong>adding shows<\/strong>. Other minor bugs has also been fixed, so the app will now be more reliable when searching for episodes.<\/p>\n\n<p>The only new feature is the support for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnet_URI_scheme\">Magnet links<\/a>, an optional feature for users from countries where <strong>The Pirate Bay has been blocked or banned<\/strong>, such as Italy*, Denmark or Malaysia. With these magnets links you can download any of our preset shows (all of them are from TPB), and also <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6487546781\/how-to-add-a-custom-rss-to-tvshows\">any custom RSS<\/a> that supports it. If you mark this option, please unmark the <em>Use additional sources for HD<\/em> because that option may need to have access to the TPB.<\/p>\n\n<p>In other news, the only source that TVShows is using right now is&#8230; our website. Given that third party sources were <strong>very<\/strong> unreliable, this ensures that, if something goes wrong, at least we can fix it. This approach consists of a cached Yahoo! Pipe fetching The Pirate Bay, something already used for custom RSS but now much more improved and reliable. However, your TVShows may have downloaded unwanted files, but now the system is polished so that should not happen any more.<\/p>\n\n<p>The very good news is that, now, we can add almost <strong>any show we want<\/strong>. This curated list contains currently more than 350 airing shows, but if you want us to add any other show (available in The Pirate Bay) send us an email to <a href=\"mailto:\/\/support@tvshowsapp.com\">support@tvshowsapp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>As always, we have to thank all our translators for their fantastic job, updating every language and adding full translations in <strong>Greek<\/strong> and <strong>Slovenian<\/strong>. You can wait for the app to update itself or you can download it right away <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\">from our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><span><\/span>* <small>This feature has nothing to do with my upcoming trip to Italy.<\/small><\/p>","tags":["The Pirate Bay","yahoo! pipes","Magnets"]},{"id":"10325456622","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/10325456622","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/10325456622\/how-to-use-tvshows-with-transmission","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-09-17 19:12:08 GMT","date":"Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:12:08","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1316286728,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"eQly5jhF","slug":"how-to-use-tvshows-with-transmission","regular-title":"How to use TVShows with Transmission","regular-body":"<p>Although TVShows works with any torrent client, we don&#8217;t hide that our favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/transmissionbt.com\">Transmission<\/a>. It&#8217;s a nice piece of software, it&#8217;s free, and it has a couple of features that work really well with TVShows. But you need to change some default settings so TVShows can do what it&#8217;s meant to do: <em>download your favorite TV shows automatically in your Mac<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is a screenshot for the &#8220;Transfers&#8221; tab in Transmission preferences (I outlined the main options we&#8217;re going to talk about):<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lrojgvKRH01qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Transmission - Preferences\" title=\"Transmission - Preferences\"\/><\/p>\n\n<ul><li><p>Default location: you can have Transmission download all your files in a single folder no matter where the torrent originally was. All torrent clients do that. But Transmission has this unique feature (we don&#8217;t know any other client that does that): it can download files in the same folder as the torrent file. So if you set TVShows to download torrents in &#8220;TVShows Downloads&#8221;, for instance, you will have all your shows in that folder, instead of mixed up with all your other (not TV related) downloads.<br\/>\nWe strongly recommend selecting &#8220;Same as torrent file&#8221; for all users, but it becomes compulsory if you want to use the &#8220;Save each show in its own folder&#8221; option in TVShows (introduced in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6483557062\/2-0b8-new-show-list-custom-rss-and-bugfixes\">2.0b8<\/a>). Why? Because with this option enabled, TVShows will create a folder for each show and save each torrent in its corresponding folder&#8230; but if Transmission (or any other torrent client, for that matter) downloads all files in one single place, it&#8217;s no use having a folder for each show.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Start transfers when added, and Display a window when opening a torrent file: when it comes to automating the downloading process, these options should be exactly as the screenshot shows, the first one checked and the other one unchecked. But what do they do?<br\/>\nIf you don&#8217;t check &#8220;Start transfers when added&#8221;, when TVShows launches Transmission and opens the torrent it just downloaded, it will be paused. You will need to click the Resume button in order to get the episode downloaded. On the other hand, if you don&#8217;t uncheck &#8220;Display a window when opening a torrent file&#8221;, an annoying options window will pop up every time you (or TVShows) open a torrent with Transmission, and Transmission won&#8217;t download a thing until you click the Add button. As you see, this defeats the purpose of TVShows, so please keep these options as we explain.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lrojhhlUhF1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Transmission - Options Window\" title=\"Transmission - Options Window\"\/><\/p><center><font size=\"2\">This is the annoying window I just told you about.<\/font><\/center>\n\n<ul><li><p>Watch for torrent files in [Folder]: this option and the &#8220;Automatically open torrent files after downloading&#8221; option in TVShows (we talked about it in our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5861103283\/2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-2-preferences\">TVShows Manual<\/a>) always cause confusion. You may think they are the same, or that you need to have them both checked, but that&#8217;s not true. The one in TVShows is capable of launching your torrent client (Transmission, in this case) and open the torrent it just downloaded. <strong>You don&#8217;t need to check the option in Transmission.<\/strong><br\/>\nThe one in Transmission needs you to keep Transmission running in order to watch the selected folder. If you close Transmission and then add a torrent file in that folder, Transmission will not launch. Since we don&#8217;t like to keep apps running to do the background work, we implemented our own option, it works much better.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Other useful options for the sake of tidiness (but they don&#8217;t affect how TVShows works) include:<\/p>\n\n<ul><li><p>Keep incomplete files in [Folder]: this way you won&#8217;t have your partially downloaded episodes standing in the way in the destination folder. I particularly like this, because I use my TVShows download folder as an &#8220;inbox&#8221;, when I see there&#8217;s something new in there I know I have a new episode to watch (and when I do, I move it to another folder so my &#8220;inbox&#8221; is always empty).<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Trash original torrent files: you usually don&#8217;t need torrent files after opening them, why keep them? Transmission can get rid of them for you.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Append .part to incomplete files: by default, once Transmission downloads a bit of your file it gives it the final name, so you can&#8217;t tell which files are completed and which are still being downloaded by looking at your downloads folder (especially if you keep incomplete files in the destination folder). This option is self-explanatory, right?<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>If you didn&#8217;t use Transmission, we hope you give it a chance after reading this post. We sure love it!<\/p>","tags":["Transmission","Manual"]},{"id":"9474298410","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9474298410","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9474298410\/2-0b11-bitsnoop-love","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-08-27 22:50:00 GMT","date":"Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:50:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1314485400,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"7mXrlO84","slug":"2-0b11-bitsnoop-love","regular-title":"2.0b11: BitSnoop Love","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lqlzbgW5H21qiaydk.png\" alt=\"BitSnoop\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>This <em>emergency<\/em> update brings full <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsnoop.com\/tvrss\/\">BitSnoop<\/a> compatibility. Indeed, it is so compatible it is used by default in most of the popular shows, as a back-up plan because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9459173853\/all-sources-down-refresh-your-showlist\">source disaster<\/a>. This brings support for 19 new shows, including popular realities like Jersey Shore, Army Wives, Britain&#8217;s Got Talent, Iron Chef America, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>Another change is a (hopefully) fix for when Miso is first enabled, that caused loss of subscriptions in almost every occasion. But the real one that forced this update is the new cache system to be nicer to our sources. This last one was very important to bring to the table because previous betas were <em>overusing<\/em> our sources.<\/p>\n\n<p>Localizations are also updated, and we have a new kid in the block: <strong>Arabic<\/strong>. I have to thank the effort that <a href=\"https:\/\/webtranslateit.com\/en\/projects\/874-TVShows-2\/people\">our translators<\/a> put in this hobby, but this time I want to give special props to <a href=\"http:\/\/ikhalid.tumblr.com\/\">Khalid Mohammed<\/a>, that fully translated it to Arabic in record time.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you are under Lion and have the 9th beta, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9081534260\/2-0b10-lion-friendly\">you&#8217;ll need to disable TVShows<\/a> before being able to manually upgrade. If you have the 10th beta you can safely update without problems, this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">direct link to this latest version<\/a>.<\/p>","tags":["BitSnoop","Miso"]},{"id":"9459173853","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9459173853","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9459173853\/all-sources-down-refresh-your-showlist","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-08-27 16:27:11 GMT","date":"Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:27:11","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1314462431,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"xkoOeSk5","slug":"all-sources-down-refresh-your-showlist","regular-title":"All sources down: refresh your showlist","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lqlhlmXYMa1qiaydk.jpg\" alt=\"Bad, bad cat\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>One of the first things that I wanted to do with TVShows is adding more sources so it would be more robust. Previous TVShows betas only looked at ShowRSS, a wonderful service but sometimes it was off or not updated. So I added EZRSS, Hamsterpit, and a certain Yahoo! Pipe to the mix, giving a much smoother experience.<\/p>\n\n<p>This week <strong>all four sources became unavailable<\/strong>. EZRSS has been three weeks completely off the grid, Hamsterpit&#8217;s service was terminated some days ago (because of the heavy load we caused them), ShowRSS is down since yesterday and Yahoo Pipes received too many requests so they are not accessible anymore.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Great<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Today a solution was needed so in a fresh start I build a quick proxy that connects to Yahoo! Pipes, processes The Pirate Bay searches and caches them so the Yahoo! request limits are respected. This is a temporal solution, but for the time being it is working kind of great and it is transparent to all users. Since only one web is checked, the response time it is much much faster. I am still searching for other alternatives though, like BitSnoop.<\/p>\n\n<p>However, this does not solve all problems, since the EZTV has not released most of the popular shows aired in the last few days. So if you are waiting like me for Futurama, Suits, Wilfred or Louie you&#8217;ll have to wait a little more or download them manually. Other shows released by VTV are available, like <strong>Burn Notice<\/strong>. In more good news, <strong>Damages<\/strong> is back. If you find a show with no episodes, please contact with us so we can fix it.<\/p>\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to do anything to update the show list, your copy of TVShows should automatically refresh the show list in a few days. But if you want this update now go to the &#8220;Add Show&#8221; window and click on the refresh button (bottom left corner).<\/p>","tags":["ezrss","Hamsterspit","yahoo! pipes","The Pirate Bay","showrss"]},{"id":"9081534260","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9081534260","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/9081534260\/2-0b10-lion-friendly","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-08-18 15:31:00 GMT","date":"Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:31:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1313681460,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"v5xRihcV","slug":"2-0b10-lion-friendly","regular-title":"2.0b10: Lion Friendly","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lq4ofxwkEN1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"TVShows 2.0b10\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT UPDATE<\/strong>: The previous betas had a really weird bug in the update system that makes the upgrade very hard. To install this tenth beta:<\/p>\n\n<ul><li>Empty your trash.<\/li>\n<li>Disable TVShows (the big ON button should say OFF).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">Download the new beta from our site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Install it (just open the file). Now you can re-enable TVShows.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Sorry for the inconveniences, that is the problem with having a bug in the update system. This tenth beta doesn&#8217;t have this problem.<\/p>\n\n<hr><p>This beta is special in that there are <strong title=\"Yep, in Apple terms this is ironically the Snow Leopard update\">no new features<\/strong>, but it should be a very welcome update for those of you that already have installed Lion. Given that almost half of our 20000 users accounted by our update system did the jump, it was overdue. If any of you were waiting for this release, now you can safely update (a backup would not hurt).<\/p>\n\n<p>Two consecutive vacations pushed my schedule two weeks more than I expected; on top of that the new Xcode is fighting like always. I apologize for that, though the important thing now is that TVShows is ready for the new season that starts this September.<\/p>\n\n<p>There were no severe bugs, so the app should have downloaded episodes normally in Lion, although the addition of new shows may have been disabled for some users. Some aesthetic changes were needed, like the new toolbars. Also, the prefpane used too much the CPU for no good reason. And there was a silly bug with Miso. All of that should be fixed in this tenth beta, but if you encounter a new bug please notify us.<\/p>\n\n<p>Another little change includes a broader support for custom feeds, for example now it is possible to add <a href=\"http:\/\/bitsnoop.com\/tvrss\/\">BitSnoop<\/a> feeds. This change is not really specific to BitSnoop, so other feeds could incidentally work.<\/p>\n\n<p>As always, localizations were updated, thanks to our <a href=\"https:\/\/webtranslateit.com\/en\/projects\/874-TVShows-2\/people\">awesome translation team<\/a>. Special congratulations to <strong>Taz<\/strong> for translating the application to <strong>Hebrew<\/strong>, making our <strong>30th localization<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>I hope you find TVShows as useful as we do, and that these changes result in a better experience. Remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/docs#Contribute\">you can contribute<\/a> to the project in several ways. Finally, after a little more testing, we are ready to release the final 2.0 version. Until then, <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/TVShows.zip\">download this beta<\/a> to help us getting there.<\/p>","tags":["Lion"]},{"id":"7227590868","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/7227590868","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/7227590868\/waiter-theres-a-lion-in-my-soup","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-07-04 14:17:00 GMT","date":"Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:17:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1309789020,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"CYtY5jJD","slug":"waiter-theres-a-lion-in-my-soup","regular-title":"Waiter, there's a lion in my soup","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lntbir2vGP1qiaydk.jpg\" alt=\"Lion\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>As you may know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\">OS X Lion<\/a> is coming this month to the Mac App Store. So let&#8217;s briefly discuss if TVShows may have any compatibility problems with it.<\/p>\n\n<p>First of all, <strong>TVShows has not been tested in Lion<\/strong>. About 4% of our active users have installed TVShows on Lion, and we have received some feedback from them. But right now we are not actively fixing those bugs. The answer is simple: the main developer hasn&#8217;t installed Lion yet, for several reasons. The main developer is me, by the way.<\/p>\n\n<p>However, I plan to install Lion the same day the official version is released. <strong>Within a week of the release date<\/strong>, another <strong>TVShows beta will be released<\/strong> to fix any bugs. We don&#8217;t know the exact release date yet, there are rumors pointing at July 6, July 14 or even the end of the month.*<\/p>\n\n<p>If you upgrade to Lion, in the very worst case scenario, your subscriptions could be corrupted, though no one has reported that. So I recommend either you sync with Miso or you backup your <code>~\/Library\/Application Support\/TVShows 2\/<\/code> folder. In the average case scenario, your shows will not be downloaded for a week and strange non-critical errors may occur. Since it is summer, most of your subscriptions are in a break anyway, so it is not a big deal.<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m aware that, in an ideal world, TVShows should have been tested against the Gold Master version.** For me, this is kind of a pet project and my resources are limited, so if you love TVShows please <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/docs\/#Contribute\">consider contributing to it<\/a>!***<\/p>\n\n<p><span><\/span>* <small>My personal opinion is that Apple is struggling for its product to be accepted under the draconian rules of the Mac App Store.<\/small><br\/>\n** <small>Well, in my ideal world TV networks should jointly offer worldwide an automatic subscription product with all their shows for a fair monthly fee.<\/small><br\/>\n*** <small>I would also accept any used Mac for testing purposes, but before sending it to me please erase your inter-species porn.<\/small><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> as you may have noticed, Lion has been released. Our developer is on holidays until the weekend, so he will start testing TVShows on Lion next week. Please remember to backup your subscriptions folder (<code>~\/Library\/Application Support\/TVShows 2\/<\/code>) before upgrading (just in case) and stay tuned for the new beta!<\/p>","tags":["Lion"]},{"id":"6969685093","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6969685093","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6969685093\/2-0b9-sync-with-miso-new-interface-and-bugfixes","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-06-27 09:27:00 GMT","date":"Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:27:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1309166820,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"3zsRUYYR","slug":"2-0b9-sync-with-miso-new-interface-and-bugfixes","regular-title":"2.0b9: Sync with Miso, New Interface and Bugfixes","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lnfz7sumtW1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"This is how the Miso preferences look like\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Since the first day we took over TVShows, two functionalities have been heavily requested: subtitles and synchronization <em>with the cloud<\/em>. The first one will have to wait until the next major version, but we are happy to announce that the second has been achieved in this last beta.<\/p>\n\n<p>The chosen backend is <a href=\"http:\/\/gomiso.com\">Miso<\/a>. We are not the biggest fans of the service, but they offer an API with all we need, a fast and reliable service and a considerable user base. We will probably support other services in the future, but even if you are not a Miso user and you don&#8217;t plan to visit their website regularly, we still recommend you to set up your account to work with TVShows.<\/p>\n\n<p>Once you enter your Miso credentials (we do not store you password but please give access to TVShowsHelper twice), your TVShows will be favorited (followed) on Miso and your Miso favorites will be added to TVShows. Next time you subscribe\/unsubscribe from a show in TVShows, it will update your Miso favorites accordingly, and viceversa. For technical reasons, this only works when you are connected to the internet, otherwise the operation will be reverted next time Miso is checked.<\/p>\n\n<p>Miso also have a concept called <strong>check-in<\/strong>, that works similarly to Foursquare\/Gowalla\/Facebook Places but with shows and movies instead of places. TVShows also synchronizes that data with the episodes you downloaded, and it also works the other way around (it will not download episodes you already marked as seen).<\/p>\n\n<p>At this point, you could ask why you would want to synchronize that data with Miso. These are some situations where this setup could be useful.<\/p>\n\n<ul><li>Since the show list is <strong>effectively backed-up<\/strong> in Miso, if you reinstall or want to move your subscriptions to another computer, you only have to enter your Miso credentials and <em>voil\u00e0<\/em>, there they are. <strong>Important<\/strong>: only preset shows will be synced, not custom RSS.<\/li>\n<li>You could <strong>remotely add or remove shows<\/strong> by favoriting\/unfavoriting them on Miso, <strong>even with your phone<\/strong> (there&#8217;s an app for that). Next time TVShows check for new episodes, the subscriptions list will be updated.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, you could <strong>favorite upcoming shows<\/strong> like Terra Nova and when they are available on TVShows they will be added to your subscriptions. Even the first episodes will be automatically downloaded.<\/li>\n<li>If you watch an episode on TV and therefore you don&#8217;t want to download it when it is available with TVShows, just do a check-in on Miso for that episode.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p>As you can see, this <em>cloud sync<\/em> could be tremendously useful and have a lot of possibilities. But, as always, this is optional. You can decide whether to sync the subscriptions list, the downloaded episodes, both or none.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lnfz93a71y1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"This is how the subscriptions interface looks like\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>But there is more in this beta. The most visible change is the <strong>revamped subscriptions interface<\/strong>, now featuring black background, lovely DVD\/Blu-Ray covers (differentiating HD shows from normal ones) and filtering capabilities. It still needs a little polishing and you need to reprogram your muscle memory to find the <em>Add Show<\/em> button, but it integrates some extra functionality. If you have a lot of subscriptions, the search box and the ability to filter shows with a click will be time savers.<\/p>\n\n<p>All of this is nice, however, the most urgent updates are bug fixes. Firstly, a severe PPC bug caused to not show any new episodes (very bad). Secondly, some of our sources were giving us bad torrent files. This ultimately derived in episodes not being downloaded (quite bad).<\/p>\n\n<p>Now, <strong>this should never happen<\/strong>. Torrent files are checked when they are downloaded, and torrent links are consolidated from our sources, so if one is invalid, another will be tried. Previously this <em>source consolidation<\/em> was half-baked, it only chose the link from the first one. This solution also improves the situation when there is no HD version of an episode and you try to manually download it, now giving you the option to download the SD with one click.<\/p>\n\n<p>The last bug fix I want to talk about is one we received no complains at all. If you suspend your Mac, the interval between checks would be increased because that time the computer is sleeping doesn&#8217;t count for the TVShows helper. Now it takes this into consideration and when your Mac is awaked it re-programmes itself. And, if the programmed check was missed, it immediately triggers a check. I used it every day.<\/p>\n\n<p>Apart from that, minor bugs have been fixed, a couple of preferences have been added, and localizations have been updated (<a href=\"https:\/\/webtranslateit.com\/en\/projects\/874-TVShows-2\/people\">thanks to our translation team!<\/a>). You can know more <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/notes.html\">by reading the release notes<\/a>. As always update it from the preferences panel or <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/\">just download it from our website<\/a>.<\/p>","tags":["Miso","Sync","Interface"]},{"id":"6488183421","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6488183421","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6488183421\/como-anadir-un-rss-personalizado-a-tvshows","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-06-13 14:33:00 GMT","date":"Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:33:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1307975580,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"LcK4TEDS","slug":"como-anadir-un-rss-personalizado-a-tvshows","regular-title":"C\u00f3mo a\u00f1adir un RSS personalizado a TVShows","regular-body":"<p>(This is a Spanish translation of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6487546781\/how-to-add-a-custom-rss-to-tvshows\">this English post<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n<p>En ocasiones la lista predefinida de TVShows se vuelve demasiado corta, ya sea porque queremos a\u00f1adir una serie no soportada, una serie en espa\u00f1ol o usar solamente torrents de un tracker privado. Todo eso es posible gracias a una de las <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6483557062\/2-0b8-new-show-list-custom-rss-and-bugfixes\">novedades clave de la \u00faltima beta<\/a>, el soporte para a\u00f1adir RSS personalizados. Este proceso no es nada complicado, as\u00ed que vamos a explicarlo detalladamente.<\/p>\n\n<p>La manera m\u00e1s directa de realizar esto es usar <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/\">The Pirate Bay<\/a> y, dado que no soportan feeds de b\u00fasqueda, <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Pipes<\/a>. Pongamos que queremos a\u00f1adir <strong>Crematorio<\/strong>, una serie no publicada por EZTV y por tanto no disponible en nuestra lista de series predefinidas. As\u00ed que vamos a The Pirate Bay y <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/search\/crematorio\/0\/99\/0\">buscamos esta serie<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqf6tKb6x1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Resultados de la b\u00fasqueda en The Pirate Bay\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Fij\u00e9monos brevemente en esos resultados. A partir de la lista, es obvio que el \u00fanico usuario que ha ido publicando torrents al ritmo de emisi\u00f3n es <strong>hero14<\/strong>. Es importante darse cuenta de que estos episodios no est\u00e1n en HD.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqfcjJcG01qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Yahoo! Pipe para una b\u00fasqueda en The Pirate Bay\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>El siguiente paso consiste en <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=8cf458463c77ab3326c01d4d7de46fbd\">visitar esta Yahoo! Pipe<\/a>. En el campo <em>Search torrents containing:<\/em> escribe el nombre de la serie, en este caso Crematorio. Y en el campo <em>TPB User:<\/em> escribe el nombre del usuario, en este caso hero14 (no hay distinci\u00f3n entre may\u00fasculas y min\u00fasculas). Haz click en <strong>Run Pipe<\/strong>, comprueba que los resultados son correctos y copia el enlace de <em>Get as RSS<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqfqu5t7w1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Ventana de RSS personalizados en TVShows\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>En este punto ya tenemos todo lo que necesitamos, as\u00ed que vayamos a la aplicaci\u00f3n TVShows. Haz click en <strong>A\u00f1adir RSS pers.<\/strong> y aparecer\u00e1 un nuevo formulario. En <em>Enlaces al feed:<\/em> pega la direcci\u00f3n que acabas de copiar. Entonces rellena el nombre de la serie, en este caso Crematorio (se autocompletar\u00e1 cuando la lista de episodios se descargue).<\/p>\n\n<p>Opcionalmente, puedes indicar la id en TVDB para esa serie, visitando <a href=\"http:\/\/thetvdb.com\">TheTVDB<\/a> y copiando la id desde la direcci\u00f3n de esa serie. Tambi\u00e9n puedes a\u00f1adir filtros personalizados, pero en este caso nada de eso es necesario. Una cosa muy importante que comprobar es desmarcar la opci\u00f3n HD si el feed no tiene episodios en HD, o viceversa. Si lo dejas marcado y no hay versi\u00f3n en HD, la aplicaci\u00f3n a\u00fan intentar\u00e1 encontrarla usando Torrentz, y eso puede ser bueno o malo para esa serie, depende.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqg1qDtnu1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"TVShows ha acabado\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Haz click en <strong>Subscribir<\/strong> y ya has terminado. Olv\u00eddate de la serie porque desde ahora cualquier nuevo episodio se descargar\u00e1 autom\u00e1ticamente de manera similar a una serie predefinida. Tendr\u00e1s una bonita car\u00e1tula para esa serie y podr\u00e1s editarla despu\u00e9s para cambiar, por ejemplo, el nombre de la serie, o para a\u00f1adir un feed adicional a la suscripci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cuando realices esto un par de veces, descubrir\u00e1s que puedes a\u00f1adir cualquier serie a TVShows en dos minutos.<\/p>","tags":["Custom RSS","The Pirate Bay","Yahoo! Pipes","How To","Espa\u00f1ol"]},{"id":"6487546781","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6487546781","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6487546781\/how-to-add-a-custom-rss-to-tvshows","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-06-13 13:55:00 GMT","date":"Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:55:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1307973300,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"FJyvehDU","slug":"how-to-add-a-custom-rss-to-tvshows","regular-title":"How to add a Custom RSS to TVShows","regular-body":"<p>Sometimes the preset show list in TVShows turns to be too limited, maybe because we want to add an unsupported show, to add a show dubbed in other languages or to use exclusively torrents from a private tracker. All of these is possible thanks to one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6483557062\/2-0b8-new-show-list-custom-rss-and-bugfixes\">key features of the latest beta<\/a>, the Custom RSS support. This process is quite easy, so let&#8217;s explain it in detail.<\/p>\n\n<p>The most straightforward way to do this is by using <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/\">The Pirate Bay<\/a> and, because they do not support search feeds, <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Pipes<\/a>. Let&#8217;s say we want to add <strong>Army Wives<\/strong>, a show not released by EZTV and therefore not in our preset show list. So we go to The Pirate Bay and <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/search\/army%20wives\/0\/99\/0\">search for this show<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqd2uwMDy1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"The Pirate Bay Search Results\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look briefly at those results. From the list, it&#8217;s clear that the user with most peers is <strong>TvTeam<\/strong>, so that&#8217;s the one we want to get. It is important to notice that these are not HD versions (those are released by <em>sceneline<\/em>) and that they are released one by one just after they are aired.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqdhlgMgu1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Yahoo! Pipe for a The Pirate Bay Search\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>The next step is <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=8cf458463c77ab3326c01d4d7de46fbd\">visiting this Yahoo! Pipe<\/a>. In the <em>Search torrents containing:<\/em> field write the show name, in this case Army Wives. And in the <em>TPB User:<\/em> field write the name of the user, in this case TvTeam (this is case insensitive). Click on <strong>Run Pipe<\/strong>, check that the results are correct and copy the link from <em>Get as RSS<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqe5qkC4T1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"TVShows Custom RSS Window\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>At this point we have everything we need, so let&#8217;s go to the TVShows app. Click on <strong>Add Custom RSS<\/strong> and a new form will appear. In the <em>Feed URLs:<\/em> paste the one you just copied. Then fill a show name, in this case Army Wives (it will be auto-completed once the episode list is downloaded).<\/p>\n\n<p>Optionally, put the TVDB id for that show, by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/thetvdb.com\">TheTVDB<\/a> and copying the id from the URL of that show. Also, you can add custom filters, but in this case none of that is needed. One thing very important to check is to unmark the HD option if the feed does not have HD episodes, or viceversa. If you mark it and there is no HD release, the application will still search for it using Torrentz, and that may be good or bad for that show, it depends.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmqe6sd0zq1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"TVShows done\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>So click on <strong>Subscribe<\/strong> and you are done. Forget about it because from now on any new episode will be automatically downloaded just as any preset show. You should have a nice cover for that show and you can edit it afterwards to change, for example, the show name, or to add an additional feeds to that subscription. Once you do this a couple of times, you&#8217;ll find it that you can add any show in two minutes.<\/p>","tags":["Custom RSS","The Pirate Bay","Yahoo! Pipes","How To"]},{"id":"6483557062","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6483557062","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/6483557062\/2-0b8-new-show-list-custom-rss-and-bugfixes","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-06-13 09:05:00 GMT","date":"Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:05:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1307955900,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"coXGeuX7","slug":"2-0b8-new-show-list-custom-rss-and-bugfixes","regular-title":"2.0b8: New Show List, Custom RSS and Bugfixes","regular-body":"<p>The latest beta polishes a lot of popular itches from the previous versions, but at the same time it adds long requested functionalities. By addressing the weakests points of TVShows, the app has evolved into a much more reliable tool.<\/p>\n\n<p>This will be the latest beta before getting to the 2.0 final, that will be released in the near future. This means that our efforts will be centered in fixing bugs and not adding new features.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmpddtyuBm1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Show List\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>First, <strong>the preset show list is rebuilt from the ground up<\/strong>. Instead of only getting shows from ShowRSS, now we maintain a show list that combines releases from <a href=\"http:\/\/showrss.karmorra.info\/\">ShowRSS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ezrss.it\">EZRSS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterspit.com\/\">Hamsterspit<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/thepiratebay.org\/user\/eztv\/\">eztv user in The Pirate Bay<\/a>. This list is curated by us, and it contains <strong>almost 50 new shows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Because of that, now we can remove from the list all the cancelled\/ended shows. More importantly, when the application updates the show list, your subscriptions with ended shows will has a nice ribbon to warn you that there is not going to be more episode for that show.<\/p>\n\n<p>Another desired side effect of that list is that TVShows will find new episodes even if one or two sources are down. And because the application merges the results intelligently, an episode will be downloaded exactly once (in the future we&#8217;ll add an option to download repacks as well). Finally, if we want to add new sources we can do it from the server, so there is no need to update the application for this reason any more.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you look closely at the previous screenshot, you can see that an old feature is back: the ability to automatically download missed episodes when you subscribe to a show. In some cases this is great and it makes sense to support it again. But consider that old episodes may not have a lot of peers.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmpdjmcsix1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"Custom RSS\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>The second biggest new feature is <strong>custom RSS<\/strong>. This means that you can add any RSS that contains links to torrents of TVShows. Do you want to add an RSS from your favorite private tracker? Or a show not included in the preset show list? Now you can.<\/p>\n\n<p>As with the preset shows, you can add more than one feed per subscription. And you can filter the episodes by name, great if the RSS have releases of multiple shows. Technical limitations forbid us to filter by the real release name, but it is planned for the future.<\/p>\n\n<p>One useful source for new shows is The Pirate Bay, but unfortunately they dropped the search feeds. If you find an user that regularly releases a show you want, just go to this <a href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=8cf458463c77ab3326c01d4d7de46fbd\">Yahoo! Pipe<\/a>, put the show name, the user name and copy the resulting RSS link in TVShows. A tutorial explaining the steps will be released shortly, but it is pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n\n<p>Afterwards, subscriptions can be edited, even preset shows. This makes more sense when used with the new option to <strong>download each show in its own folder<\/strong>. For example, your chosen folder is Movies, inside that subfolders will appear with show names and inside them the episodes for that show will be added. If you want to change the folder name, just change the show name in your subscription.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lmpfzd4Uev1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"TVShows Preferences\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>The other new option is related to the HD functionality added in the previous beta. That was a unique functionality of TVShows that no other app has, and it allowed to download HD torrents that no other similar program will find for you. However, some of those torrents may contain rars, so there is a tradeoff that may hinder automatic setups. For those cases, you can now disable this behaviour if you want to stick with the much more limited HD list released by EZTV.<\/p>\n\n<p>Minor touches were added in several places to polish the application. For example, you can now see when is the next episode going to be aired, if that information is known.<\/p>\n\n<p>Thank to our wonderful translation team, we are happy to add four more locales: Afrikaans, Basque, German (Switzerland) and Slovak. Since this is a beta, there may be some things untranslated, but it will be finished in the final version.<\/p>\n\n<p>Last, but not least, performance and reliability have been greatly improved. Special mention to a wild bug in 32 bits machines (PPC\/Intel) that causes a lot of problems everywhere that has been (hopefully) fixed in this eight beta.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\">Download it from our website now<\/a>. We hope you enjoy this juicy beta as much as we do!<\/p>","tags":["Custom RSS","EZRSS","Hamsterspit","ShowRSS","The Pirate Bay","Feature"]},{"id":"5861103283","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5861103283","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5861103283\/2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-2-preferences","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-05-26 09:04:12 GMT","date":"Thu, 26 May 2011 11:04:12","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1306400652,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"CrQzkufM","slug":"2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-2-preferences","regular-title":"2.0b7: TVShows Manual (part 2: Preferences)","regular-body":"<p>In our <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5477633439\/2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-1-subscriptions\">last post<\/a>, we explained how subscriptions work, and how you can add, manage or delete subscriptions. Today, we&#8217;re explaining the options in the Preferences tab, and some other cool things.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ll8erbTg4v1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>This is the Preferences tab, where you can configure almost everything in TVShows. Under General Settings, you have the option to turn on and off the menu bar icon. This icon gives you direct access to some of TVShows features without having to open the interface (we&#8217;ll see that later).<\/p>\n\n<p>Then we have the Download Preferences. There you can select the frequency you want TVShows to check for new episodes and where you want it to download the torrent files (in the next version, you will be able to make TVShows save each show in its own folder inside this general one!).<\/p>\n\n<p>We get to two interesting preferences:<\/p>\n\n<ul><li><p>Automatically open each file after download: it isn&#8217;t about the video files (remember, TVShows doesn&#8217;t download actual videos, only torrents), but the torrent file. This option is enabled by default, and it&#8217;s the best way to completely automate the download process: TVShows will open the torrent file with your default torrent manager (we love <a href=\"http:\/\/transmissionbt.com\/\">Transmission<\/a>, but the choice is all yours). You would only need to disable this option if you don&#8217;t usually have a broadband connection (the torrent files are tiny, the videos aren&#8217;t) or if you want to choose when you download the videos for any other reason.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Download HD versions by default: this is the default quality setting, but changing it doesn&#8217;t affect shows you&#8217;ve already subscribed to (you have to change it show by show in the Subscription window, as we explained in the previous post). It&#8217;s just a way to save some clicks if you want most of the shows in HD: when you go to the Add Show window, the HD setting will be enabled or disabled by default depending on the global setting, but you can change it every time you want.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>Below you can enable or disable some Growl notifications (there are more in the Growl PrefPane) and check for TVShows updates.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_llrsk381mS1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>The About tab lists all contributors to the project (thank you everyone!), and it contains links to our <a href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TVShows2\">Twitter account<\/a> and a donation button.<\/p>\n\n<p>The &#8220;View Logs&#8221; button is important for troubleshooting. If you think TVShows is not working as it should, please take a look at the log. If you don&#8217;t understand it, don&#8217;t worry, you can always send it to us and we&#8217;ll take a look. You can manually send an e-mail to support(at)tvshowsapp.com or use the &#8220;Submit Feedback&#8221; button at the left (in this case, please include your e-mail address so we can reply).<\/p>\n\n<p>The &#8220;Submit Feedback&#8221; button and the On\/Off slider appear in all tabs. The slider allows you to enable or disable the background process.<\/p>\n\n<p>And finally, if you just don&#8217;t like TVShows (sorry about that! We&#8217;d like to hear your thoughts, maybe next version will have that awesome feature you missed in the current version!), you can click the &#8220;Uninstall&#8221; button. Please be aware that you may need to manually remove the PrefPane after uninstalling. Just go to System Preferences, and if TVShows is still there, right-click it and select &#8220;Remove TVShows Preference Pane&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_llrt2bAiNo1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>This is the menubar icon (you can enable or disable it in the Preferences tab). It allows some basic features without having to open TVShows (check for new episodes, see when was the last time the background process checked for new episodes, enable or disable the background process), and it provides quick access to all TVShows tabs and feedback submission.<\/p>\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for the 7th beta! We&#8217;re soon releasing another beta, we&#8217;ll tell you about its new features when it&#8217;s out!<\/p>","tags":["Interface","Manual","Preferences"]},{"id":"5477633439","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5477633439","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5477633439\/2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-1-subscriptions","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-05-14 12:15:00 GMT","date":"Sat, 14 May 2011 14:15:00","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1305375300,"format":"markdown","reblog-key":"A1Xa6ksn","slug":"2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-1-subscriptions","regular-title":"2.0b7: TVShows Manual (part 1: Subscriptions)","regular-body":"<p>We think TVShows is the easiest way to download your favorite TV shows automatically in your Mac. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s still in a beta state (always improving) and some settings may not be clear enough, so now that we released the 7th beta and that we have a brand new blog, we are publishing a couple of posts going through the interface to see what you can do in each window\/tab.<\/p>\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s begin with something simple: how subscriptions work.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ll5chpc7371qiaydk.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>This is the first thing you will see after installing TVShows (it comes with no subscriptions, of course), and it allows you to subscribe to new shows or edit your current subscriptions. If you want to add a new show to your list, just click on the &#8220;Add Show&#8221; button; if you want to change anything in a show you already have in your list (the quality, or even unsubscribe) or manually download a recent episode, then click on the image of the show.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ll5n15ftCO1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>This window will drop down when you click the &#8220;Add Show&#8221; button in the Subscriptions tab. You can scroll through the whole list of available shows (*) or simply type the name of the show you want in the search box. When you select a show, TVShows will display the list of most recent episodes and a brief summary so you can learn what the show is about. Finally, there&#8217;s a checkbox where you can select if you want episodes of this show downloaded in High Definition (720p) or not (this checkbox will be by default selected or not depending on your setting on the Preferences tab&#8230; we&#8217;ll get to this in the next post). Please keep in mind <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5392356980\/2-0b7-more-hd-episodes-menubar-icon-and-bugfixes\">how HD downloading works<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>(*) <strong>Update:<\/strong> The list is not managed by TVShows, it&#8217;s retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/showrss.karmorra.info\">ShowRSS<\/a>. So if you want to subscribe to a certain show that doesn&#8217;t appear in the list, just ask them! (by mail, showrss(at)karmorra.info, or even <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShowRSS\">twitter<\/a>) When they add it, it will automatically be available in TVShows.<\/p>\n\n<p>When you click on the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; button, the show will automatically appear in your subscriptions list and TVShows will automatically download new episodes as soon as they are released. But what happens if you subscribed to a show that is already on its 5th or 6th episode? Let&#8217;s see how you can manually download recent episodes.<\/p>\n\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ll5dsfZp8r1qiaydk.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p>This window will drop down when you click on the image of the show in the Subscriptions tab. You can see if the show is still on or if it was cancelled or ended (in this case you should unsubscribe, because TVShows will no longer download episodes&#8230; we are working on doing this <em>cleaning<\/em> task for you), and when was the last time TVShows downloaded an episode (if you just subscribed it will show the current date).<\/p>\n\n<p>If you subscribed to this show in SD and now you realize you want more quality, this is the place to change it. You can also temporarily disable automatic downloads for this show if you need to. But the most useful thing in this window are the arrow buttons next to each episode. Clicking on those arrows makes TVShows download the torrent files of the corresponding episodes, that way if you missed some episodes before subscribing you can manually download them.<\/p>\n\n<p>However, not all episodes from a show are available to download, only the most recent ones (usually 10). The goal of TVShows is doing the routine work for you: automatically download new episodes as they are aired. Downloading past episodes is implemented just so you can catch up when you subscribe to a new show with a few episodes already published, TVShows is not aimed at downloading complete shows.<\/p>\n\n<p>When you have all your subscriptions ready, you can safely close the System Preferences window. TVShows will periodically check for new episodes in background and download them when they are available. This background process requires very little memory, you won&#8217;t even notice it when running other apps. And if you reboot your Mac it will automatically run.<\/p>\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s all for today! If you have questions, please post them in the comments section, we&#8217;ll be glad to answer.<\/p>\n\n<p>On the next (and final) post of this series we will explain the Preferences tab, some other useful buttons, and one of the new features of this beta: the menu bar icon. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5861103283\/2-0b7-tvshows-manual-part-2-preferences\">follow-up post<\/a>.<\/p>","tags":["Interface","Manual","Subscriptions"]},{"id":"5392356980","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5392356980","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5392356980\/2-0b7-more-hd-episodes-menubar-icon-and-bugfixes","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-05-11 15:43:56 GMT","date":"Wed, 11 May 2011 17:43:56","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1305128636,"format":"html","reblog-key":"zRRwg7Qv","slug":"2-0b7-more-hd-episodes-menubar-icon-and-bugfixes","regular-title":"2.0b7: More HD Episodes, Menubar Icon and Bugfixes","regular-body":"<p>Today we launched the <a title=\"Download 2.0b7 from here\" href=\"http:\/\/tvshowsapp.com\/\">7th beta of TVShows 2.0<\/a>, and it mostly contains bug fixes. We are happy to be getting pretty near the point to release a stable version and move on to more interesting things.<\/p>\n<p>However, two <em>major<\/em>\u00a0new features have been added: a <strong>new menubar icon<\/strong> and <strong>additional HD episodes<\/strong>. The first was long requested and it has basic functionality: providing feedback (that the app is doing something), checking for new episodes, opening the preference pane and disabling the app.<\/p>\n<p>The second major feature is more interesting to explain. The way TVShows works now, <a title=\"ShowRSS\" href=\"http:\/\/showrss.karmorra.info\/\">ShowRSS<\/a>\u00a0is the only source for getting both episodes schedules and torrents. ShowRSS, in turn, gets all those torrents from <a title=\"EZTV\" href=\"http:\/\/eztv.it\/\">EZTV<\/a>, the most reliable scene team for TV shows.<\/p>\n<p>This means that if EZTV does not release an episode, it cannot be downloaded using TVShows. And, sadly, EZTV does not release HD episodes for every show. So another solution must be developed to get additional torrents from other teams.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <strong>TVShows 2.0b7 detects automatically<\/strong> if ShowRSS <strong>does not list any HD episode<\/strong> for a show, therefore looking for those torrents in <a title=\"Torrentz\" href=\"http:\/\/torrentz.eu\/\">Torrentz<\/a>. Torrentz is a meta-search-engine for torrents that include results from trackers like The Pirate Bay. TVShows then gets the best available torrent for that search (more seeds\/peers) and downloads the torrent from one of the listed trackers.<\/p>\n<p>For the user, this means that\u00a0<strong>an HD episode is downloaded\u00a0transparently<\/strong>. In theory, this could derive in poor quality torrents, but in reality torrents have almost the same quality as EZTV releases. Until now, internal tests have reported no wrong-labelled torrent, and all of them have a lot of seeds\/peers.<\/p>\n\n<p>The only downsides are that a lot of these torrents are <strong>split into multiple rar files<\/strong> (little irritant but not a big deal), and that <strong>most late nights<\/strong> does not have any HD releases. To avoid missed episodes, if <strong>after three days of checking<\/strong> there is no HD release, TVShows will then download the SD release.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it is a big improvement over previous versions. Although there is room for tweaks, this approach almost guarantees that the best available HD torrent is downloaded. It works so well that I&#8217;m thinking of ditching EZTV\/ShowRSS and using\u00a0<a title=\"The TV DB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetvdb.com\/\">TheTVDB<\/a> and Torrentz all the way, including SD episodes.<\/p>","tags":["HD","Feature","Menubar","Torrentz"]},{"id":"5391087155","url":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5391087155","url-with-slug":"http:\/\/blog.tvshowsapp.com\/post\/5391087155\/welcome-to-the-tvshows-2-blog","type":"regular","date-gmt":"2011-05-11 14:27:06 GMT","date":"Wed, 11 May 2011 16:27:06","bookmarklet":0,"mobile":0,"feed-item":"","from-feed-id":0,"unix-timestamp":1305124026,"format":"html","reblog-key":"Q5xtOa3v","slug":"welcome-to-the-tvshows-2-blog","regular-title":"Welcome to the TVShows 2 Blog!","regular-body":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_ll1c1xSpRu1qiaydk.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hi everyone! From now on this the place\u00a0where the TVShows team will announce new versions, discuss diverse functionality, teach some tricks and other cool things.<\/p>"}]});
