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Keeping track of twenty TV shows
entry by Avatar-X
10/9/2009 9:00 PM

There's about twenty TV shows right now that I enjoy watching. However, I really don't have the time to watch them when they actually air, and sometimes I don't even have time to watch them the same week they air. Also, many of them are off-the-air for months at a time, such as Top Gear.

A few years ago I wrote a little piece of software called TVGet, and I've been refining it ever since. Here's what it looks like right now:

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The software basically tracks as many TV shows as I can throw at it, figures out when the next episode is on, and then attempts to download the episode from a variety of places on the internet. Once the file has arrived, it automagically renames it into the naming scheme I prefer and adds it to the folder where that show lives on my file server. The server itself keeps track of which episodes I've yet to watch.

It's simplified my life and allowed me to enjoy these shows on my schedule, and not on the broadcasters.

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Avbrand Blog Commenter Comments from the AvBrand Blog Total Likes: 3 likes \| \|	AvBrand Blog Comment: Morder < Reply # 1 on 10/10/2009 4:29 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	Awesome, I'm working on something similar but I didn't think to automagically check for future airings of shows...thanks!

Avbrand Blog Commenter Comments from the AvBrand Blog Total Likes: 3 likes \| \|	AvBrand Blog Comment: Don < Reply # 2 on 10/15/2009 12:24 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	If you wouldn't mind, could you give a little more info on how you're getting future airings of a program? What services do you use to know the program guide and which shows are new. This is a great idea!! Wish I would've thought of it.

Avatar-X Alpha Husky Location: West Coast Gender: Male Total Likes: 765 likes yay! \| \| \|	Re: Keeping track of twenty TV shows < Reply # 3 on 10/15/2009 3:46 PM > \| Reply with Quote

	Hi Don, I'm using www.epguides.com to get the information.
	huskies - such fluff.

Avbrand Blog Commenter Comments from the AvBrand Blog Total Likes: 3 likes \| \|	AvBrand Blog Comment: Don < Reply # 4 on 10/20/2009 4:18 AM > \| Reply with Quote

	Thanks Avatar-X! I had looked at a few different products, like XMLTV, but I hadn't run onto epguides.com. BTW, that's a beautiful puppy!

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