What happens when you mix a TV addict and a productivity enthusiast. You get me!
In the good old days I had an excel file where I listed all the TV shows that I watched with an auto date-updater. I was thinking of writing a program but never got around to it. That’s when I discovered next-epdisode.net. I was relieved of my primitive excel ways. Then technology took a leap: enter RSS feeds. A service called showRSS was pretty cool and also conveniently provided Torrent Links (not that I used any of these illegal torrents. No sir, I simply waited until they aired on a legally subscribed dish channel :P). It seems there are some who are determined to make it even easier to download TV Torrents. Gentlepersons I present to you TED: Torrent Episode Downloader.
Coupled with a bittorrent client like utorrent, you don’t have to do anything. Seriously, you don’t…. Once setup, it automatically downloads the Torrent files and if you allow utorrent to download the files directly, even that part is taken care of. You just go about doing your normal do da and will find your downloads folder updated with the latest TV episodes. Simply brilliant stuff.
so to recap my creepy TV following ways: Excel > Next-episode.net > showRSS > TED.
The process of setting up TED is drop dead simple:
- Install TED from here
- Click the First button “Add Show” and you’re done.
- Some additional settings: Extra > Preferences > Configure where torrent files are saved e.g: E:\Downloads\Torrents.
- Make sure to check “Open it in your default bittorent client”. That’s the sizzler that makes this application a beauty.
TED is still maturing so prepare for some mild wonkiness. The only painful process is for some reason you format your pc or something crashes, you have to manually add all the shows again, which can be a real back-biter. To make it even simpler (if you share the same viewing choices as me) download this .ted file to your PC. Open TED, click File > Import Shows and point it to this downloaded file. yup that simple!
For unobstructed Torrent downloading and viewing goodness, change the following settings in Utorrent under Options > Preferences > UI Settings, Ensure:
- “Don’t start the download automatically” is UNCHECKED
- “Activate the Program window” is UNCHECKED
- “Show a window that displays the file inside the torrent” is UNCHECKED
Prepare for some unobtrusive TV viewing Goodness!
You’re welcome ;)