[thomersch_]

Really staggered to see work on Podcasting and not even mentioning or considering Podlove http://podlove.org/

They are already working for several years on improvements and standards for publishing and consuming podcasts. E.g. Podlove defined how to deliver chapter marks inside a feed and implemented it in their Wordpress based Podcast Publishing Software.

[chrisrhoden]

I am familiar with podlove, and the work on chapters in particular are interesting, but they face the exact problems I talked about in the post - they are mostly being designed in a vacuum. Apps are slow to add support for nonexistent data, and producers will never add data that will not be used (it's hard enough to correctly fill in the stuff that will be used!)