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11 Responses to "The Talk Show Needs Chapters"

1. | Reply Jesper
   Posted 19 Aug 2007 at 1:09pm #
   

   Desperately.

   Actually, I can't tell if the show is edited at all. That's not critisism. I like it for what it is.

2. | Reply Mike
   Posted 19 Aug 2007 at 1:31pm #
   

   Can both be done, if enough people want chapters?

   MP3 is generally more compatible, but given that most of your audience will be Mac users...you probably don't have to stress over that.

3. | Reply Chris Gonyea
   Posted 19 Aug 2007 at 3:28pm #
   

   I think the vast majority of people who listen to podcasts are able to play AAC files. I don't really see a reason to stick with MP3's. The benefits outweigh the negatives.

4. | Reply Dan Benjamin
   Posted 19 Aug 2007 at 5:29pm #
   

   The show is edited a great deal. We usually record about an hour, and I cut 25-30 minutes.

   I'm thinking about adding chapters, but for now I'm sticking with mp3 to allow for the widest possible audience (and because we want to avoid having two versions of each show).

5. | Reply Lucius Kwok
   Posted 19 Aug 2007 at 6:26pm #
   

   Technically, the latest ID3 tag format supports chapter markers, but I've never seen it implemented.

6. | Reply g.
   Posted 20 Aug 2007 at 9:18am #
   

   In an ideal world Apple would have adopted the id3v2.4 frames and chapters spec in iTunes, but in the real world offering a separate AAC podcast feed would be the easiest way...

7. | Reply Manton Reece
   Posted 20 Aug 2007 at 9:48am #
   

   AAC with chapters is nice (and I may choose AAC for The Talk Show since I only listen on my iPhone), but there is something to be said for the universal nature of MP3 and skipping the confusion of two separate podcast feeds. MP3s are like plain text files -- everything will be able to play them even two decades from now.

   Also you need to go MP3 if you want compatibility with Flash-based players.

8. | Reply Jesper
   Posted 20 Aug 2007 at 12:59pm #
   

   In that case, Dan, what was less interesting than blue aliens?

   😉

9. | Reply Tim Buchheim
   Posted 20 Aug 2007 at 2:49pm #
   

   I like having podcasts in MP3 format because I usually listen to them on my car's CD player. (I burn them to CD-RW.) The CD player doesn't support AAC, so there are some podcasts which I never listen to because they're not available as MP3.

10. | Reply John C. Welch
    Posted 20 Aug 2007 at 4:10pm #
    

    I find chapters to be god awfully annoying, because if I want to skip a podcast, they make doing so far more tedious than such a task should be.

11. | Reply Realty
    Posted 22 Aug 2007 at 12:05am #
    

    Yes, I don't really see a reason to stick with MP3's. The benefits outweigh the negatives.