Juice (software)
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| Juice | |
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| Developed by | Juice Team |
| Latest release | 2.2 |
| OS | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
| Genre | Podcasting |
| Licence | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ |
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.
The original development team was formed by Erik de Jonge, Robin Jans, Martijn Venrooy, Perica Zivkovic from the company Active8 based in the Netherlands, Andrew Grumet and Garth Kidd joined the team really soon after the first release. Its development team credited the program concept to Adam Curry who wrote a little Applescript as a proof of concept and made an effort in providing the first podcasts shows (then not yet called podcasts but audio enclosures) but mostly to Dave Winer who was the inspiration for Adam Curry. The first version also included a screenscraper for normal HTML files, and initially it wasn't so clear that podcasting would be completely tied to rss. While that was the route taken, there were diverse forks working on alternatives early in development, including one based on Freenet.
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[edit] Development
The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs on Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. A 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. This development quickly put an end to the popularity of the Juice application. There were just too many advantages to subscribe to podcasts natively in iTunes than using a 3rd party application.
In 2006 the team effectively stopped further development of the program, the developers started working in other fields some Podcasting related. The team from Active8 created PodNova (http://www.podnova.com) an application which still integrates very nice with Juice with the opml interface. Adam Curry and Andrew Grumet started working on a commercial show network (podshow) where all the shows are sponsored and the distinction between show and commercial is faded to the background. Others went on on other ventures.
[edit] Forks
There have been several forks of Juice:
