Juice (aggregator)
| Developer(s) | Juice Team |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 2.2[1] 
/ 11 November 2005 |
| Preview release | 2.2.2-a1[2]
/ 20 July 2006 |
| Written in | Podcasting |
| Licence | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | juicereceiver |
Juice is a
Development
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 to
The program is written in Python and, through use of a cross-platform UI library, runs on
variant has not been developed.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.
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 well 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 to other ventures.
Forks
There have been several forks of Juice:
- PodNova, which was available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but closed at the end of February 2010.
