<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 7, 2023, at 3:00 AM, Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Now, apparently the latest macOS already includes a UTI for FLAC as<br>one of its core types, apparently that is org.xiph.flac. If anyone can<br>confirm that, that would be great.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">FLAC isn’t listed as one of the system-declared UTIs on </span><a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/system-declared_uniform_type_identifiers">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uniformtypeidentifiers/system-declared_uniform_type_identifiers</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">However, on my system (macOS 13.3) using</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I see the following:</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">type id: org.xiph.flac (0x707c)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">bundle: CoreTypes (0x1018)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">uti: org.xiph.flac</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">localizedDescription: "ar" = "صوت FLAC", "ca" = "Àudio FLAC", "cs" = "FLAC audio", "da" = "FLAC-audio", "de" = "FLAC-Audio", "el" = "Ήχος FLAC", "en" = "FLAC audio", "en_AU" = "FLAC audio", "en_GB" = "FLAC audio", "es" = "Audio FLAC", "es_419" = "Audio FLAC", "fi" = "FLAC-ääni", "fr" = "Audio FLAC", "fr_CA" = "Audio FLAC", "he" = "שמע של FLAC", "hi" = "FLAC ऑडियो", "hr" = "FLAC audio", "hu" = "FLAC-hang", "id" = "Audio FLAC", "it" = "Audio FLAC", "ja" = "FLACオーディオ", "ko" = "FLAC 오디오", "LSDefaultLocalizedValue" = "FLAC audio", "ms" = "Audio FLAC", "nl" = "FLAC-audio", "no" = "FLAC-lyd", "pl" = "audio FLAC", "pt_BR" = "Áudio FLAC", "pt_PT" = "Áudio FLAC", "ro" = "audio FLAC", "ru" = "Аудио FLAC", "sk" = "FLAC audio", "sv" = "FLAC-ljud", "th" = "เสียงแบบ FLAC", "tr" = "FLAC sesi", "uk" = "FLAC-аудіо", "vi" = "Âm thanh FLAC", "zh_CN" = "FLAC音频", "zh_HK" = "FLAC音訊", "zh_TW" = "FLAC音訊"</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">flags: active apple-internal imported core trusted (0000000000000065)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">conforms to: public.audio</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">tags: .flac, audio/flac</span></p></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">So it does appear that org.xiph.flac is included in CoreTypes.</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures">Stephen</span></div></body></html>