Juice (podcasting)

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Juice

Juice 2.2 running on Windows XP
Developer:	The Juice Team
Latest release:	2.2 /
OS:	Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
Use:	Podcasting
Licence:	GNU General Public License
Website:	Sourceforge

Juice is a cross-platform aggregator application that is used to download podcast media files, such as oggs and mp3s. These media files can be automatically copied to a digital audio player. Juice lets you schedule downloading of specific podcasts, and will let you know when a new show is available. It is free software available under the GNU General Public License. The project is hosted at Sourceforge. Formerly known as iPodder and later as iPodder Lemon, the software's name was changed to Juice in November of 2005 in the face of legal pressure from Apple Computer, Inc.

It was the first major podcatching software and probably remained the most popular podcast aggregator available for the first year of podcasting's popularity (through June 2005). Its development team credited the program concept to Adam Curry and Dave Winer.

The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs on Mac OS X and Windows. A GNU/Linux variant has been heavily delayed.

The 2004 growth of podcasting inspired other podcatching programs, such as jPodder, as well as the June 2005 addition of a podcast subscription feature in Apple's iTunes music player.

[edit] Forks

There have been several forks of Juice:

CastPodder was formerly called iPodder Linux. This podcatching software focuses solely on the Linux Operating System. Features.
PodNova client software works in conjunction with the PodNova website to create a "one-click subscribing to podcasts" experience.