Allow for customization of titles in feed

[mattstratton]

The theory is that you have an optional configuration directive that takes placeholders, which you can use to set what the title will be for the episode in the feed.

For example, right now, by default, it ends up like this:

<title>Back to School</title>

The configuration directive could allow placeholders for title, show_name, and episode_number, like this:

itunes_episode_title = "Episode %e - %t - %s"

Which would result in:

<title>Episode 12 - Back to School - Arrested DevOps</title>

[mattstratton]

Need to look into this as I've casually come across a few posts that have opinions about putting show name, episode number, etc in the title fields?

[mattstratton]

OK, so here's kind of what I'm thinking (after looking at https://www.thepodcasthost.com/planning/podcast-episode-titles/)

• the itunes:title tag in the feed should NOT use this configuration; since it has all the rich information about episode numbers, etc. So that part of the feed should only use the actual title
• the <title> tag in the feed should use the config directive

Slightly related - consider that episode pages should display the episode number somwehere, because it's nice to know this :)

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