If you’re not much of an iTunes fan, you can still manage your podcasts easily with Juice. This open source and multi platform (Windows, Linux, and MacOS X) podcatcher will check and download your podcasts whenever you want.

Juice is extremely simple to use:

•  Find the RSS feed of the podcast and add to Juice’s subscription list. It’ll check for new files and download them automatically when available.

• Then you can easily manage the downloaded audio files.

• You can also search through Juice’s directory to have access to several other podcasts.

Be sure to keep Juice’s downloaded files inside a directory your media manager program is monitoring for new files. This way the new files will always be added to your playlist.