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

[Ali Abdin]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Jack Moffitt wrote:

> i think the issue was that Nautilus was coded to do certain things when
> audio/blah was hit.  ie, it enabled a set of funcationality.
> 
> personally, while there is a problem on the vorbis side, this is
> definately also a limitation in nautilus if i've understood it
> correctly.  there shold be some kind of "detect if this mime type has
> audio playback cabability" and if it has audio, but not graphics, then
> trigger said playback functionality.  

To detect wether a mime type has audio playback capability we check the 
mime supertype (audio/*) I do not think this is inherently flawed (how 
else would we check if a mime type has audio playback capability?)

Never the less we could easily "special-case" Ogg support. Its very 
simple we just add in application/x-ogg among the 'audio/*' (but it 
would become unweildy if every application/new file format decided to 
use application/* and we have to somehow "detect" its functionality). 

Anyway, since I know this is just a temporary situation, I don't mind 
making the change. (I'll do it within the week (got midterms, so I'm a 
bit busy))

Regards,
Ali 
 
> jack.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:52:26AM -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:
> > On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 15:56:34 -0200 Ali Abdin <aliabdin at aucegypt.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > > I'd agree that we should stick with "application/x-ogg" and "OggS" as
> > > > the magic string for now. I will advocate this approach for the time
> > > > being.
> > > 
> > > 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).
> > 
> > If it doesn't matter to you, please do change it back. Not "just for the sake of 
> > changing," but because it's the mimetype we've been telling everybody, and because
> > it more properly matches the test in the existing code. Principle of least surprise.
> > 
> >  -r
> > 
> > --
> > giles at ashlu.bc.ca
> > 
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