I have been a big fan of Itunes as a podcatcher and use it for the podcasting workshops at WVIZ since their start in 2007. In the last few years as people became more familiar with the process, I have started to recieve questions such as, “Can I use anything else besides Itunes” ect.

I have always felt that Itunes was a very soundly designed software package for what it was designed to do. I generally recommended that people might wish to consider staying with that product for ease of use. Once you learn how you can capture other RSS feeds for podcasts that are not carried by Itunes, I really do not see the need to go searching for another program. The interface between the library and device is really nearly fool proof.

I happen to see a posting on Lifehacker that polled readers on what the best podcast manager software might be. They reviewed the features of: gPodder, Zune, Miro, Itunes, and Juice.

I was happy to see that many others also feel that Itunes is a quality software package to work with podcasts. See the results of the survey below:

Results from Lifehacker Survey

As a side note… if you are not following Lifehacker’s RSS Feed or checking out their site, I highly recommend doing so. The quality of the writing and the ideas to save time or create really unusual things to be more efficient is very good.