<podcast:section>

[saerdnaer]

Followup from discussion on podcastindex.social:

In some cases a podcast feed does not consists of individual episodes, but several parts of an episode, e.g.

• when broadcasters publish the individual stories of a magazine programme as individual items…
• when audio books are published as separate mp3 file per chapter
• whats about music albums? Are tracks/songs individual episodes or the whole album one entity?

Reusing <podcast:episode> to for the chapter / item number inside of that episode feels wrong, so we should probably think about an sub-entity below e.g. section?

Im not sure if the term section is really the best one... Maybe track or clip? Do you know a better term or is it just fine?

<item>
           <podcast:section name="Chapter 1">1</podcast:section>
</item>

Related: #263

[daveajones]

Could we add an extra attribute to <podcast:episode> to indicate that it is a section instead of a new tag? How does that feel to you?

[theDanielJLewis]

I think this would be redundant because we already have the Season tag that can do this. Plus, the episode number doesn't have to be unique: you can have an episode 5 for every season.

Yes, "season" isn't the most universal term for this, but our expansion of the season tag can do exactly what you're asking for.

[saerdnaer]

@theDanielJLewis the best generic term for a group of episodes I became aware is grouping, but thats an other topic than this issue as it is another hierarchy level. I can create a new issue for if you are interested in this discussion :-)

@daveajones Something like this?

<item>
           <podcast:episode section="Part 1">233</podcast:episode>
</item>
<item>
           <podcast:episode section="Part 2">233</podcast:episode>
</item>
<item>
           <podcast:episode section="Part 3">233</podcast:episode>
</item>

[theDanielJLewis]

Or group or series.

But I wonder what does this do that we can't already do with the <podcast:season> tag and named seasons? What would make this section/group/series/whatever tag unique and not overlap seasons? Or should we scrap "seasons" and switch to this new idea?

("Category" and "tag" could be other good attributes for the <podcast:episode> tag, but they might get confused for genres/categories and SEO tags.)