| Juice | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Juice Team |
| Stable release | 2.2[1]  / 11 November 2005 |
| Preview release | 2.2.2-a1[2] / 20 July 2006 |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | OS X,Windows |
| Type | Podcasting |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | juicereceiver |
Juice is apodcastaggregator forWindows andOS X used for downloading media files such asogg andMP3 for playback on the computer or for copying to adigital audio player. Juice lets a user schedule downloading of specific podcasts, and will notify the user when a new show is available. It isfree software available under theGNU General Public License. The project is hosted atSourceForge. Formerly known asiPodder and later asiPodder Lemon, the software's name was changed to Juice in November 2005 in the face of legal pressure fromApple, 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, Garth Kidd and Mark Posth joined the team soon after the first release. The development team credited the program concept toAdam Curry who foundedipodder.org,[3] wrote a little Applescript as a proof of concept and provided the first podcast[4] shows[5] (then referred to as 'audio enclosures') but primarily toDave Winer who was the inspiration for Adam Curry. The first version also included a screenscraper for normal HTML files. Initially, it was not clear that podcasting would be completely tied to RSS. Although that was eventually the method chosen, during the early development phase a diverse range of people were working on alternatives, including a version based onFreenet.
The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs onMac OS X and MicrosoftWindows 2000 orWindows XP. ALinux variant has not been developed.
In 2006 the team effectively stopped further development of the program, the developers started working in other fields, some Podcasting related. 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 to other ventures.
The 2004 growth of podcasting inspired other podcatching programs, such asIPodderX,[6][7] based onpyPodder,[8] andjPodder, as well as AppleiTunes June 2005 addition of a podcast subscription feature in its music player. This development quickly put an end to the popularity of the Juice application.[citation needed]
There have been severalforks of Juice.[citation needed]
The team from Active8 createdPodNova[9] an application which integrates well with Juice with an opml interface,[10] which was available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but closed at the end of February 2010.
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