Buried within the 'What is Podcasting' link on the new iTunes 4.9 Music Store is this little item:
Enhanced PodcastsQ: What's an enhanced podcast?
A. In addition to publishing a podcast, you may create an enhanced podcast, which contains chapters that reference pictures or web links that are displayed within the iTunes song artwork viewer.Q. How do I create an enhanced podcast?
A. You can download and use "Chapter Tool" to create enhanced podcasts. The Chapter Tool allows you to create chapters within a MPEG4 AAC file created with iTunes 4.9 of better. Chapters, at a minimum, must include a Start Time and one other attribute.
It now looks like you can 'slice' up your podcast and add track references. This would be great for sound-seeing tours or other news-format shows. I would think that the Hobson & Holtz Report might use this feature. Neville Hobson and I talked about this during my recent interview.
I know that Dave Winer will not be a big fan of the slice-n-dice.
Visitor Comments
Yes, but I will be!
Posted by: kaye trammell | June 29, 2005 10:32 PM
I've created a tutorial on how to use this tool that is available here: http://makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/index.xml
Posted by: Walter | July 1, 2005 11:57 PM