[vorbis-dev] Return of the Son of MIME type

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Ali Abdin <aliabdin at aucegypt.edu> writes:

> 
> Right now, I temporarily "forked" the mime-type to use 'OggS' to map to
> "audio/x-ogg" (this will just "identify" the file in Nautilus as an OGG file
> (which is the description).
> 
> Nothing "depends" on this yet though (such as Music Preview, or 'View as
> Music'). At this point in time I see no difference between "application/x-ogg"
> and "audio/x-ogg" so I don't see a real incentive to change (especially since
> you guys are working on this alternative stream description metadata substream).
> 
> I am now just putting in this "audio/x-ogg" in there and forgetting about it
> ;) I do intent to change it as soon as: A) a new Ogg codec is
> developed/released or B) you get the 'stream description metadata substream'
> done :)
> 
> Of course, I could switch it to "application/x-ogg" just for the sake of
> changing, but I'd rather not
> 

Ali,

Please change it for now. It won't really matter until non-audio Ogg
files are popular, and hopefully the Ogg developers will have a
solution for file type detection by then.

Since all current Ogg files are audio-only, it might make sense to
have the type be audio/x-ogg for now and add application/x-ogg and
video/x-ogg later when there are actually multiple types and a
detection mechanism, but that's not the way the Ogg guys want to do it
and we may as well go with what they suggest for the time being.

Thanks,

Maciej

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