official mime types

[Igor Gueths]

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Last I saw on one of the xiph.org lists in terms of the mime types 
topic...Ogg was being considered for inclusion in the audio hierarchy. 
Not sure how far this got however since the last time I saw a reference 
to that subject, which I believe was a year or 2 ago. 
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:15:15AM -0800, Ralph W. Reid wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:43:00PM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Are there any official or preferred mime types referring to flac files?
> > or to ogg/vorbis files? I have invented my own to use locally, but would
> > rather use standard or recommended ones if there are such things.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chuck
> > 
> 
> By using `gst-typefind` on flac and ogg files on my Slackware system,
> the following types were produced:
> 
> audio/x-flac
> application/ogg
> 
> I do not know why ogg files wind up listed as type 'application' while
> other audio files are listed as type 'audio'.  Maybe some one more
> knowledgeable on this topic can provide more info.
> 
> The `gst-typefind` program seems to want to work with some kind of X
> interface, but I was able to get usable output from a text command
> line as follows:
> 
> gst-typefind <filename> 2> /dev/null
> 
> where:
> <filename> was the name of the file whose type was desired,
> and '2> /dev/null' is used to direct the extraneous trash which seems
> to be the result of the program trying to connect to a graphical
> interface.
> 
> HTH, and have a _great_ day.
> 
> -- 
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