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I have noticed on the Roger Sanchez Release Yourself Podcasts http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=133234883 and the Gareth Emery Podcasts http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=133975014 that when playing any of the podcasts, you can see an updating tracklist throughout the show in the green viewing window in iTunes. In between the Podcast Episode Name and the Progress Bar, there is a section that would normally just display the 'Artist'. However, these podcasts scroll between artist, podcast name and then the name of the current track. This constantly updates throughout the show to display the track currently playing.
Also, when playing these podcasts on an iPod, each of these different 'tracks' can have a separate piece of artwork assigned to it and you can skip through the podcast as if it were a mixed cd with track breaks.
Does anybody know how it is possible to create a podcast in this way. Is the information contained within the MP3 file or has this been done using XML code?? Are any special programs required for it??
I would very much like to produce my podcasts in this way so if anyone knows how i may do this then any help would be very much appreciated.
Thank you for reading.

I used a program named 'ChapterTool' to create enhanced podcasts. It requires the use of terminal but it is very easy to do once you have had a little read into it.

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