iTunes is a digital media player application, introduced by Apple on 2001 for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store (provided an internet connection is present) in order to download podcasts, and feature length films.
iTunes lets you listen to your podcasts on your. PC/Mac or download them to iPod, and manage your podcast subscriptions. By using iTunes to subscribe to a podcast show, you can access your favorite podcasts without visiting a website. iTunes is free and easy to use.

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WIndows and Macintosh

FireANT - An RSS video aggregator and media player. This is one of our favorites.
Juice - Opensource iPodder software. Juice is the premier podcast receiver
YamiPod - freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
WIndows
Winamp - Now owned by AOL an all time favorite media player.
Doppler - Great Agregator
Bitscast - P2P freeware
Newzie - News aggregator used to monitor RSS and ATOM formatted feeds
Macintosh
NewsFire - described as the Angelina Jolie of applications
NetNewsWire - RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X
PulpFiction - easy-to-use, powerful RSS/Atom feed reader.
NewsMacPro - OS X newsreader that supports podcasting & Palm and iPod sync
Linux
amaroK - music app and podcast client
PenguinTV - RSS feed reader designed to work with podcasts and video blogs

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Audio Hijack Pro - Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro - Exclusively for Mac OS X.
GarageBand - Mac OSX- GarageBand 3 puts you in the control room of your own full-featured radio station
Podcaster - Mac OS publishes podcasts and enhanced podcasts quickly and easily.
Podcast Station - Win 2k and XP program that will record, edit, mix and publish your podcasts.
WebPod Studio - the world's leading podcasting software that produces both audio and video PodCasts.
Feeder - application for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds on Mac OS X
RapidWeaver - Mac OSX - easy-to-use blogging tool that supports podcasting
ePodcast Producer - All-in-one software for podcasting - Windows
Propaganda - Windows software for recording, editing ad publishing podcasts.
Finalcut Express - OSX Final Cut Express HD delivers the tools you need to make great-looking and great-sounding movies.

By Hugo Schotman


Figure 1. Diagram of an advanced software studio setup.

Audio Hijack Pro is extensively used in this setup to route audio, add effects and to record the final result. This setup assumes that all audio is mixed to one (stereo or mono) audio track that is recorded in Audio Hijack Pro.
NOTE: Some of the advanced settings of Audio Hijack Pro described in this setup are only valid for Audio Hijack Pro version 2.5 or higher, which is currently still in Beta. Some details might have changed in the released version.

Figure 2 shows the flow diagram of the setup with audio chat and extra effects chains.

Figure 2. Flow diagram of an advanced setup.

Delays (latency) are added to the audio signal in each step of the process. In Figure 2, delay 1 - 4 indicates that there are 4 delays from microphone to headphone. Tips on how you can minimize the total latency are described in the paragraph "Reducing latency in the setup" below.
Hijack sessions
Three hijack sessions are required to make this setup work. See for example the sessions in Figure 4. (AA 0# in front of the session title is for sorting them together. Handy if you have more sessions defined.)

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