official mime types

Chuck Hallenbeck chuckh at hhs48.com
Thu Jan 27 15:45:57 EST 2005


Many Thanks.

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, 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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