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Best Podcast Software List

A list by Scott Clark

Podcast Software Directory (Since 2002!)

Software for use in grabbing your favorite news, music, and other programs. This list is organized around platforms, so some will work with MP3 Players, MP3 music players, iPods, Ipod Nano, Iphone, Ipod Shuffle, and iPod Video. Some new mp3 players come with Wi-Fi, which enables you to get your songs to the player just by be near your computer. Other players allow you to simply subscribe and listen with your web browser and are ideal for times when you're using a computer other than your own, etc.

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  • I'm also adding are software for producing and publishing podcasts.
  • If you see any broken links, or any defunct software, please do drop me a line. I want this list to remain fresh.
  • I do not provide support.This is just a directory. Please let me know if any of these programs proves problematic.

Windows Podcast Software

Name Type Intro
@Podder Catcher A free client designed for the visually impaired. Download files into your MP3 Player or Ipod.
Doppler  Catcher  Doppler is a aggregator. It’s a tool to subscribe to RSS feeds which supply downloadable files. Download files into your MP3 Player or Ipod.
iTunes Catcher Apple's heavily commercialized tuner. Works well with iPhone, ipod shuffle, ipod nano, and regular ipod or ipod video. Iphone and ITouch users can download podcasts directly to the device via Wifi and, if the podcast is <10mb, via 3G network.
gPodder Catcher Basic Features, RSS feads and BitTorrent podcasts
Happy Fish Catcher Requires Itunes.  HappyFish is an RSS reader that can also download RSS enclosures (podcasts, mp3's, videos, pics, apps, whatever) to your computer
Juice  Catcher (formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome]
MadCat Catcher MadCat is a multipurpose application that allows you to browse the web, while enjoying quality video content from around the world. MadCat can download you're favorite Rss feeds, Democracy channels, or sniff media links out the webpages you browse. This is mainly for video podcasts, but audio works fine.
MediaMonkey Catcher MediaMonkey catalogs CDs, AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, MP3 and other audio files such as audiobooks, podcasts, etc. It includes a CD ripper, CD/DVD Burner, and converter for saving music. It syncs tracks, playlists, and podcasts to portable audio devices such as iPhones, iPods, MP3 Phones, and other devices, and supports hundreds of scripts, plug-ins and visualizations to extend its functionality further.
Miro Catcher Miro recently introduced a multi-platform podcast support to its cool Miro Internet TV Software. The new setup has added an audio podcasts section to the software and a section for audio in the library.
NewzCrawler Catcher NewzCrawler is a rss/atom reader, news aggregator, browser and blog client for Windows which provides access to news content from various sources
Podcast Amp Catcher A simple, free tool that lets you listen to podcasts directly on your website / page.
Podspider Catcher Podspider is the only solution that offers podcast listeners a directory containing more than 13,000 podcasts organized into 25 subjects and sorted into over 300 categories, supplemented by software that makes the podcast experience effortless and fun.
Primetime Catcher Automated download scheduling, integrated media consumption, catch-up ability, sortable media library, bookmarking support, and integrated podcast directory from Podcast Alley.
RCFeedme Catcher Basic interface, not really designed for use with portable devices. Not an RSS reader.
Replay AV Catcher Replay AV makes it easy to automatically record your favorite radio shows, so you can listen wherever and whenever you like. Recordings can be automatically transferred to your iPod or other MP3 Player, burned to a CD, or you can just listen on your PC. It's incredibly convenient.
WinPodder Catcher Aging, but still around. Simple Install. Requires Windows Media Player 9. Does not auto-download podcasts as they come through the feed. For some, this is a feature. Supports Apple's "enhanced" podcast format, mP3, torrent formats.
Yamipod Catcher Freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Has an RSS/Podcast to iPod feature.
Ziepod Catcher Ziepod+ is your next-generation media player. It is designed to keep you alive with audio and video content automatically retrieved from all over the Internet.

iPod is a brand of portable digital media player designed and marketed by Apple Computer with simple user interface designed around a central scroll wheel. Most iPod models store media on a hard drive, while the smaller iPods use flash memory.

Macintosh Podcast Software

Name Type Intro
iTunes Catcher  Apple's heavily commercialized tuner. Works well with ipod Nano, Ipod, and Shuffle
Juice Catcher (formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome]
Playpod Catcher  designed exclusively for Mac OS X.
Yamipod Catcher  freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Miro Catcher Miro recently introduced a multi-platform podcast support to its cool Miro Internet TV Software. The new setup has added an audio podcasts section to the software and a section for audio in the library.
Podcast Producer 2 Producer Apple has released Podcast Producer 2 as a part of Snow Leopard Server. It's an end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing and uploading podcasts. Looks awesome.
Ubercaster Producer An end to end producing application for Macintosh. Has cool Skype connection for phone conversations/interviews and lots of great library management functions.
SoundStudio3 Producer record professional sounding Podcasts and other audio dialog. More Info

Linux Podcast Software

Name Type Intro
BPConf Catcher BPConf is a simple KDE configuration frontend for BashPodder by Linc Fessenden. BPConf contains BashPodder so you don't require anything else.
CastPodder Catcher Now morphed into Icepodder below
gPodder Catcher gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python, using GTK. It manages podcast feeds for you and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like.
Juice Catcher (formerly iPodder) Lets users select and download shows and music and to play whenever they want [awesome]
Icepodder Catcher IcePodder is a podcatcher (RSS client) for Linux conceived as a replacement for CastPodder.  IcePodder is written in python, and requires python 2.4 or later, and pyGTK.  The goal of this project is to provide Linux users with a dedicated client to download podcasts, with an emphasis on reliability and stability.
Liferea Catcher Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.
Miro Catcher Miro recently introduced a multi-platform podcast support to its cool Miro Internet TV Software. The new setup has added an audio podcasts section to the software and a section for audio in the library.
Peapod Catcher Peapod is a powerful and easy to use command-line tool for downloading podcasts. It’s written in Python and uses Mark Pilgrim’s excellent feedparser library to understand atom and RSS feeds. While Peapod has primarily been developed on linux it should work on any unix-like operating system.
PenguinTV Catcher PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format.
PodGrid Catcher  personal internet radio news receiver, receiver.
Podracer Catcher Podracer is a podcast downloader. It takes a file with the URLs to all your podcast rss feeds and goes and gets the mp3s and stores them in a specified location. It is a BASH script with an internal BitTorrent downloader written in Python.
Rhythmbox Catcher Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.
StreamTuned Catcher StreamTuned plays and records audio and video streams using mplayer as backend. It also reads stream url's and related information from playlists, webpages or XML/RSS feeds. Streamtuned can act as Podcast client and allows for local and remote (webservice) access to the repositories containing your stream url's.
Straw Catcher Straw is a feed reader aimed for users using the GNOME desktop. You subscribe to news, blogs, and podcast feeds and read the feeds in the comfort of your desktop, with or without online access.
Yamipod Catcher YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.

Device-Based Podcast Software

Doppler

iPhone/iTouch Catcher

Doppler for iPhone and iPod Touch allows you to easily synchronize your google reader subscriptions to your device. Using Doppler you can read your subscribed RSS feeds on the go without needing to have an online connection using Safari. DopplerLight is the little brother of Doppler to try it out. Itunes direct link

GabCast Hybrid Producer Allows you to produce podcasts using your phone connection. May be cool for some situations, such as news reporters on-site or audio blogging. More explanation.
Google Listen Android Catcher Google released Listen recently that lets you find podcasts and web audio relevant to your searches and stream over-the-air or download for later. It combines podcasts in a sort of Pandora sort of function.
iTunes iPhone/iTouch Catcher Iphone and ITouch users can download podcasts directly to the device via Wifi. IPhone/Iphone3g/s can also download over 3G network if the podcast is <10mb.
Nokia Podcasting Nokia Devices Catcher Nokia's Mobile Podcast Client
PodTrapper Blackberry Catcher Allows you to leave the iPhone at home. A very basic podcatcher. Nothing fancy, but does the trick. It grabs new podcasts over Wi-Fi or Cell network.

Browser Podcast Software

HuffDuffer Web Browser Producer

Have you ever wanted to put together a podcast of audio files that you’ve discovered on the web? That's what this is about. You just point to the files you want and it does the RSS grunt work.

MediaTuner Web Browser Catcher Totally web based method for grouping, listening to podcasts. Requires Flash 10+. MediaTuner aggregates all of the latest Web 3.0 services, such as Twitter, YouTube, FriendFeed, Flickr and many more - and displays text, images, videos, Twitter feeds, all into a single embeddable, viral MediaTuner "player"

PodShifter

Web Browser Catcher

Voice podcasts can be sped up, much like the iPhone/iPod Touch Allow. Nice for news podcasts. A great tool for PC-based listening without hassles.

PodcastPeople Web Browser Producer, Analytics, Ad Engine Currently under review... more to come.

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