An audio programming guide provides identification and timing information
(i.e., beginning and/or ending times) for broadcast audio programs. The
information may be gathered from the broadcasters, producers, developers
or creators of the programs, and from third parties having such
information. Guide information may also be generated by human or
automated operators, perhaps by reviewing a past broadcast and then
identifying individual programs. An audio programming guide may be
distributed or made available for retrieval before, during or after the
broadcast of the programs described in the guide. Therefore, the guide
may be useful for facilitating the automated recording of programs,
and/or the parsing of a recorded stream of audio programs into individual
programs.