When your show uses the Serial episode release style, you can assign episodes a season and episode number. By default, an episode with season 1 and episode 2 will have its title formatted to look like this:
S1E2 - Podcast Title
This may be sufficient for you, but you can easily customize it. Visit your podcast dashboard and click Settings > Episode Formatting. From there, you can choose from either a compact format (the default), a verbose format, or define your own custom format.
Custom Formatting
You can define custom formatting by using the placeholders {season}
and {episode}
where the season and episode numbers would go, respectively. For example, Season {season}, Episode {episode}:
would update titles to read Season 1, Episode 2: Episode Title
.
If you're familiar with Python string formatting, you can use that to produce some interesting results. s{season:b}e{episode:b}>>
will produce some fun binary like s10e1001>> Episode Title
. Many other combinations and options are available. Aligning text with {season:<123}
, {season:>123}
, {season:^123}
, and using a fill character with any of these options is not allowed.