I think it would be beneficial to designate an official UTI (see http://developer.apple.com/macosx/uniformtypeidentifiers.html) to be used on OS X for FLAC files. I have written a FLAC metadata importer (http://sbooth.org/importers/) for which I chose the UTI 'net.sourceforge.flac'. A standard UTI for application developers to use would help alleviate any confusion and could also eliminate potential sources of conflict in the UTI hierarchy. For example, I have seen org.xiph.flac used. Unfortunately I don't have any information on FLAC support in Leopard, but if FLAC is indeed supported natively by OS X it could be that Apple has already assigned a UTI to FLAC. I think the ideal UTI would be public.flac-audio, which would inherit from public.audio. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Stephen -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2409 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20070221/e3c611ef/smime-0001.bin
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:59:17PM -0800, Stephen F. Booth wrote:> [...] > 'net.sourceforge.flac'. A standard UTI for application developers to > use would help alleviate any confusion and could also eliminate > potential sources of conflict in the UTI hierarchy. For example, I > have seen org.xiph.flac used.I would suggest org.xiph.flac. At least if Josh really is intending to move hosting of more than the lists.... -r
--- Ralph Giles <giles@xiph.org> wrote:> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:59:17PM -0800, Stephen F. Booth wrote: > > > [...] > > 'net.sourceforge.flac'. A standard UTI for application developersto> > use would help alleviate any confusion and could also eliminate > > potential sources of conflict in the UTI hierarchy. For example, I > > have seen org.xiph.flac used. > > I would suggest org.xiph.flac. At least if Josh really is intending > to move hosting of more than the lists....yeah, I would second org.xiph.flac ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html