Sick Beard is een programma dat kan helpen orde te scheppen in de chaos van tv-series. Het kan in de gaten houden wanneer er nieuwe afleveringen beschikbaar zijn en of er afleveringen van een betere kwaliteit zijn. Het kan ook enige uniformiteit aanbrengen in de naamgeving. Verder is het mogelijk om afleveringen te downloaden van usenet en in mindere mate via BitTorrent. Het programma wordt vanuit een webbrowser aangestuurd en kan daardoor op elk willekeurig besturingssysteem worden gebruikt. De ontwikkeling is nog in een vroeg stadium en het programma wordt dan ook nog als alfarelease beschikbaar gesteld. Enkele dagen geleden is versie 468 uitgekomen en deze wordt met de volgende veranderingen geleverd:
Changelog for build 468:
- Try fixing encoding errors during renaming
- Don't crash when people use make believe dates in release names
- Fix false negatives with certain episodes for shows ending with country codes
- Use relatives paths in the CSS so tablesorter images show up with web_root set
- Fixed a problem post-processing shows with & in the names
- Fix false positives in searches for single-season shows
- Fix flash errors
- Fix nzb.su feed encoding until it gets fixed server side.
- Grab pid from the main thread only and use it everywhere. This fixes restart & update for people with whacky linux setups (aka synology).
- Don't waste cycles searching unnecessarily
- Make DB search more strict - now that we also have the regex search we shouldn't be quite as lenient
- Fix a logic error in the tvrage code that could result in the wrong tvrage id being used for certain shows.
- Don't use bad cache dirs for TVDB
- Added a bit of logging to the quality selection code
- Fix a bug when manually searching for miniseries episodes
- Try catching IO errors in case the logging module dies
- Added a scene exception for Genius
- Merge branch 'master' of github.com:midgetspy/Sick-Beard
- Only pause the backlog if it is not already. If it was already paused, don't re-enable it when done
- Get the right depth of detail
- Use a better datetime format for backlog search, considering the usual length between searches
- Fix request throttling on Newzbin
- Fix whitespace problem with PS3 provider
- Fix show posters not appearing
- Fix up custom season folder settings
- Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/generica/Sick-Beard
- Removed unnecessary metadata generation from ps3.py
- Modified webserve.py so that the Coming Episodes page now uses metadata_provider.poster_name to locate the thumbnails rather than "folder.jpg"
- Added PS3 metadata provider
- Add config option for season folder formats. Use old hardcoded string as default.
- Fix some encoding issues with post processing
- Make the reverse scene name lookup a little more efficient
- Merge branch 'master' of github.com:midgetspy/Sick-Beard
- One more occurrence
- Use forced port for launching browser if set
- Fixed a bug where episodes would get named as double episodes even when they weren't (S01E02-02)