Listen to Podcasts with Juice

Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver.

People ask me all the time, “How do I subscribe and listen to podcasts?” The easy answer is to tell them to just download iTunes and have at it. It’s free. But there is another alternative out there called Juice. It’s also free and cross platform, meaning you can use it on Mac, PC and Linux. It used to be called ipodder, but Apple started cracking down on the use of “their” ipod word, so ipodder was forced to change to Juice. Juice lets users select and download shows and music and play whenever they want on their iPods, portable digital media players, or computers automatically.

Okay, so what is Juice? What can I use it for?

Juice is technically a “Media Aggregator,” a program that allows you to select and download audio files from anywhere on the Internet to your desktop.

Juice makes the process easy by helping you select audio files from among the thousands of audio sources on the web and downloading those files to your computer. Once you select a feed or location, it will download those files automatically at times you specify and have the files waiting for you on your computer, so you don’t have to spend a lot of time manually selecting and waiting for downloads. You can play your selected audio files using iTunes or other “jukebox” software, or load them on to your iPod or other portable digital media player to play anytime you want.

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To be honest, I use iTunes mostly because I have a lot of music that I manage on my iPods, and it’s easier to just use iTunes for both music and podcasts, but I’ve tried Juice, and it is a great program. If you’re just into listening to podcasts, it’s a great option.