Locatetv.com alternative - Don't lose your Picks

Hi everyone,

Sad news came in the form of a blog for LocateTV users on the 25th of February 2016: “The website will be shut down on 16 March 2016, with registered users no longer able to access shortlists, My Picks or receive weekly digest emails.”

Shortly after the news was out, LocateTV users started transitioning over to TVmaze as an alternative. And as when moving to a new house, you want to re-organize some things to make yourself as comfortable as possible. And thus, requests for features that are defining for the functionality of LocateTV were made.

We have been listing and discussing the requests that everyone has been making. And currently, we are looking into how these should be implemented into our current system.

We wish to provide migrating users with the best possible alternative. If you are a LocateTV user, don't hesitate to let us know what you would like to see added to TVmaze below or on our forums.

But just creating new features isn't enough. We want to make sure your precious data isn't lost after LocateTV has closed its doors.

Thus, we have gotten in touch with the staff from LocateTV to create an exporter and importer tool. This way you would not only have a backup of your data, but it would also spare you the hassle of having to build your listings all over again, saving you countless hours of work. We are still working on this and it will likely only be available after the LocateTV shutdown. If you wish to keep informed it's best you follow this blog.

In the meanwhile if you aren't familiar with TVmaze and are looking for a LocateTV.com alternative, check out the features TVmaze has to offer: http://www.tvmaze.com/site/features

Some key features:

- Followed Shows (just like "My Picks": follow the shows - or people - you love most)
- Show Tags (which gives you the ability to organize your shows as you see fit)
- Watchlist (an overview of the episodes from your favorite shows that you haven't watched yet)
- Show Calendar (a monthly calendar with all of your favorite shows' new episodes)
- Network Schedule (hour-by-hour overview of everything that's airing tonight)
- Detailed Show/episode info

As mentioned above we will update this blog on how things are progressing so stay tuned.

Best regards,

Jan

Update 25-05-2016

In order to keep everyone up to date about the importer: Please read the following statement.
http://www.tvmaze.com/threads/1435/attn-all-migrating-locatetv-users-importer-status

Update 12-06-2016

David said the following:

We've been working on a tool that'll allow you to to import your LocateTV picks. We don't have a lot of example LocateTV exports available here, so it hasn't been tested very well yet. I'd love it if some people can try it out and leave your feedback here! Unfortunately episode data isn't included in the LocateTV export file, so for now the only thing we can import is your shows.

To get started, visit: http://www.tvmaze.com/migrate/locatetv

We've asked about the episode data to the guys at LocateTV. Hopefully exports with the episode data will be provided.
Once there is more news we'll let everyone know how things are progressing.

Jan