[vorbis-dev] WinAmp Streaming

[R.L. Horn]

> The MP3 plugin currently ignores MIME types. :-(

Unfortunately, MIME types are kind of unreliable anyway since they depend
on the willingness (or ability) of server maintainers to keep them
updated.  The only reasonably sure way is to examine the stream yourself
for the relevant magics.

> I changed the extension on an MP3 file to TXT and WinAmp still happily
> played it with the MP3 plugin.

The extension may not matter if the server is using something like
Apache's mod_mime_magic.  (This isn't to say that WinAmp _doesn't_ have a
problem.)

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