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.

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