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Chapters and artwork have been features of podcasting since the very beginning. They've been supported in mp3 for like over 20 years.
by madeofpalk 23d ago
Chapters and artwork have been features of podcasting since the very beginning. They've been supported in mp3 for like over 20 years.
- teekert 23d agoThis is about the structure of metadata, why would you want to tie this to a file format? Even Apple realizes that is not the way to go. And what about transcripts then, Person/guest metadata, Chapter artwork, Live tags (so you can tune in live in a podcasting app)? "Some subset of these features is in MP3" is not a valid response.
- dbspin 23d agoI think you'll need a more sterling critique than 'why would you wnat to tie this to a file format', to the most successful open source media technology of all time. Aside - yes there are or were legal issues with the fraunhofer patents for MP3, but these weren't enough to stop the LAME project and expired in 2017. The combination of MP3 and RSS should be studied as quite likely the most popular open format ever. They've kept podcasting out of the hands of wannabe privatisers from spotify to apple for twenty years.