Juice vs. iTunes: How it Stacks Up

Okay, so nothing is perfect. That’s something we can all agree upon, right? Juice is great for people who are already familiar with podcasts and all the ins and outs thereof. However if this is something you’re just getting into you might be better off using Mac’s iTunes store for its ease of use. The method of searching for podcasts is much more similar to typing a search term into Google and with similar results. With Juice you’ll need to know the podcasts RSS feed and although this is something simple to do once learned, it does take an advanced podcast listener to make it seem easy.
However once you become a wiz at subscribing to podcasts (something nice indeed to add to one’s resume) Juice provides a much more specific and therefore more valuable way of finding and subscribing to the types of audio programming that will help you, the librarian. However for the general populace it might be best to use iTunes so that all, from the neophyte to the advanced user, may benefit from use.
Which leads into another issue of the use of this type of software in a library setting. The use of space to store all of the subscribed to podcasts would eventually be an issue as would be the fact that some sort of filter might become necessary if users are found to be downloading undesirable material on public computers. However I would say these issues are ones that libraries are already faced with in regards to internet use and similar methods of approaching these issues would be beneficial and well worth the benefits offered in the use of the software.