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

[Ali Abdin]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 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.

Sure, I can change it no problem.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Maciej
> 
> 

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