[Vorbis] Extension proposal - partly serious

[Paul Martin]

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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:06:23PM -0700, Arc Riley wrote:

> Leave it alone, with .ogg representing anything in an Ogg container, and
> instead of conforming to some ancient industry standards or some insane
> concept that files should be sorted by CONTENT instead of TYPE.

.ogg for purists, .ogv and .oga for realists.

Ogg is a container format, just like *IFF. Should all WAV and AVI files
be renamed .RIFF for consistency?

By the way, citing the Mac harms your case. The "extension" part of a
Mac file is the four character creator-ID stored in the resource fork,
a standard mandated by the operating system, and directly equivalent to
the 3 character extension given to DOS files. This four character
creator-id indicates to the Finder which icon should displayed for that
file, and which program should be used to open it.

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