Podcast Chapter & Shownotes Studio

Transform raw audio dispatches, interviews, and news reporting transcripts into interactive timeline chapters, YouTube timestamps, and Podcasting 2.0 cue metadata.

Episode Source

Preset Dispatches & Podcasts

Episode Title

Episode Total Time Audio Scrub Pitch

Paste Timestamps or Transcripts Accepts 00:00 Title, [04:12] Segment, or timestamped text. Optional: Match with Local Audio File Loaded 100% locally in your browser for waveform scrub & playback.

War. Displacement. Starting Over Current: 00:00 / Total: 28:45

00:00 Chapter 1: Prologue 28:45

Episode Chapters 6 chapters

Ready. Click a chapter to jump directly to its timestamp.

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Why Chapters Matter for News & Long-Form Audio

Listeners increasingly expect segment bookmarks in narrative reporting, live dispatches, and investigative podcasts. Chapters boost completion rates by letting audiences navigate complex reporting, revisit key witness quotes, and link directly to evidentiary segments.

Major distribution surfaces like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and RSS clients with Podcasting 2.0 chapter support parse structured timestamp cues to render interactive playback bars.

Supported Chapter Formats

YouTube & Spotify Shownotes Format

Standard mm:ss Chapter Title lines placed directly in your episode description. Automatically detected and parsed into clickable segments by YouTube and Spotify players.

Podcasting 2.0 JSON Chapter Specification

Standardized JSON hosted alongside your RSS feed (tagged via <podcast:chapters>). Supports titles, exact start seconds, image thumbnails, and external source links.

WebVTT & Apple Podcasts Chaps Format

Timecoded VTT files for HTML5 media players and standard Chaps cue text files used by audio mastering apps like Audacity, Ferrite, and Auphonic.