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I would love to schedule some of my favorite shows to download automatically after they air, and then get put into the library of XBMC. I have played with TED, but it doesn't download many of the torrents for the shows I want. Also, it doesn't use some of my favorite trackers, like demonoid.
What is a better way to go about doing this? I would love to stick with torrents as I am comfortable with them.
Also, is there a way to get them automatically into the library, organized where they belong and renamed apropriately, or is that a manual task?
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I think Sickbeard is a pretty common approach to this. Also, a friend of mine really likes Media Center Master, but it's not free.
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I use SABnzbd with an HDTV RSS feed from NZBMatrix and a filter.
Everything I add is downloaded and extracted to the correct TV Show folder.
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So it looks like usenet is the way most people are doing it? I haven't gotten into the world of usenet but it may be time. Are there any free usenet services, and if so are they worth anything? I don't mind paying for quality service, but I don't want to if I don't have to.
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You can do this a few ways, with torrents by setting up RSS, or with usenet.
I will leave the rest of the description up to you to research yourself as it is outside the bounds of this forum.
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Don't use free usenet. Pay a few $ to someone like astraweb/bintube/giganews and get a shit load of content out of it at the max speed of your connection.
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Yeah, I wouldn't even consider Torrents after using the Usenet...
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SAB with Sickbeard and Couch Potato is a thing of beauty for scheduling downloads. For shows I follow Sickbeard has put the file in my SAB que, downloaded it and automatically updated my XBMC library with episode art and plot sypnopsis within about a half hour of broadcast being over. Thats scary because really I've seen On Demand systems that don't work as well.
Usenet is safer and quicker.
That said for older material the range of content is a little deeper on torrents but you have to ballance that against torrents that stall at 90% and all kinds of whacky naming/file conventions. Usenet content tends to be neatly named and properly episode titled which is part of why Sickbeard works so well.
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>paying to pirate
Oh, you guys crack me up
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It would astonish me if there was a better system out there than SAB + SickBeard (+ CouchPotato). I just left town for two months, and it operated perfectly in my absence for the entire time. Brilliant stuff.
As to the "paying to pirate" comment, point taken. In my experience, however, outside of hiring a manservant to purchase content for me, rip it, name it and sort it into folders, I have yet to find a system that more perfectly does what I want than this one.
I pay Spotify $10 a month rather than pirate music, because it's a fantastic service. If the same service existed for video, I'd sign up today. In its absence, this works a treat, thanks. Folks here don't seem to pirate because it's free, they pirate because it's better (and it's free).