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Episode Butler Install, Setup, & Configuration Guide for Ubuntu & Linux Mint

Introduction

Greetings, this is a companion guide for my SABnzbd+ guide. I’ll be updating this guide for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and Linux Mint 9 but it should be pretty much the same. This will also likely work well on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and Linux Mint 7. I’ll be installing this program to the home folder for an easy install and also so that if your OS has issues you wont lose your episode database (assuming you have your Home directory on a different drive or partition, like me )

Episode Butler is simply awesome and it’s currently the application to use for Usenet and episodic content. Basically, it’ll make Usenet as convenient (if not more so) than a cable/PVR set-up. Specifically, it will automatically keep you up-to-date on your favourite episodic content while helping you build your collection with little to no hands on (after this initial set-up & configuration).

Episode Butler can be very selective in what it downloads for you. For instance, you can set it up to download only the superior x264 encoded files that have English audio.

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Episode Butler Review

Briefly

I recently revisited a program I had tried a while back called Episode Butler. This program essentially monitors Newzbin for any episodic content you want and then can pass that off to SABnzbd+ (or a few other Usenet clients) for automatic downloading.

To setup you have to input all the episodic content you want it to monitor (done via a search box) and then add each season number within the episodic content that you want to monitor (as simple as hitting “1,” “2,”…. and then enter). Any episodic content you currently have can be marked as downloaded, and any episodic content that it downloads will be marked as “downloaded” automatically.

You can configure it to search for specific formats just like you can in Newzbin (e.g.: x264, H264, divx….) as well as specific languages and subtitles. Read the rest of this entry »