Bug 1427

Summary:	non-standard MIME type for *.mp3
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Stanislav Brabec 2004-09-20 07:44:04 UTC

According to IANA registry and RFC3003, files *.mp1, *.mp2 and *.mp3 files
should all have MIME type audio/mpeg, not audio/x-mp3.

References:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/audio/
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3003.txt

Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2004-09-23 10:13:10 UTC

I'm not sure it's 100% exact to give an audio/mpeg mime type to mp3 files
containing ID3 tags, but audio/mpge would still probably be better for those
files I guess

Comment 2 Stanislav Brabec 2004-09-24 04:05:26 UTC

audio/mpge is not in IANA registry. And RFC3003 (errata) talks only about
additional MIME type audio/MPA (The MPA [RFC 1890] sub-type refers to MPEG audio
when it is segmented and send as a Realtime Transport Protocol (RTP) payload.)

IANA registry database is very poor and does not contain many common data types.
I think, that registration more types would be very useful, especially in
coordination with freedesktop.org. (In case of audio/mpeg also RFC3003 update.)

Comment 3 Christophe Fergeau 2004-12-08 13:51:28 UTC

Changed in CVS, the main mime type is audio/mpeg, and it has audio/x-mp3 as an
alias.

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