[flac-dev] Does anybody know about a windows clipboard flavour name for FLAC in use?

[Martijn van Beurden]

Hi all,

As some of you might know, the FLAC format is being processed by an
IETF working group to become an internationally recognized standard.
Part of this process is FLAC being assigned a media type (also known
as MIME-type by many): audio/flac. However, during review of the
application, it was requested to include a UTI and a Windows Clipboard
Flavour Name.

Now, apparently the latest macOS already includes a UTI for FLAC as
one of its core types, apparently that is org.xiph.flac. If anyone can
confirm that, that would be great.

Finding any Windows Clipboard Flavour Name (see
https://learn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/win32/dataxchg/clipboard-formats)
already being in use by any program seems harder. As there are a lot
of devs around here, does anybody know of any Windows program allowing
copying/cutting/pasting of FLAC data? If so, what is the name being
used to designate the clipboard contents?

If no-one knows of a name already being used, I suggest using
audio/flac. Apparently for at least jpeg, gif and png, media types are
also being used as clipboard format names/flavour names.

Kind regards, Martijn van Beurden