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> All true. But note what the user wants according to these definition: > he wants different icons for audio vs. video. Yes, he doesn't know > the difference between `.mp3` and `.ogg`. But that's precisely why > windows hides the extensions from him by default. If he does know, he > would have disabled this hiding. Exactly. The main reason for different extensions from

> Good point. File extensions normally represent groups of related > formats. I don't propose differentiating everything (e.g. standalone > FLAC from Ogg FLAC). I do want as a minimum to tell apart these > categories: > > - Lossy audio: Vorbis, Speex. But speech is useful to distinguish > from music, so making Speex separate is not a bad idea. > - Lossless audio:

> > That might be true. However, the main problem I see with this is > > that by using only the codecs as the extension you make it > > impossible to filter for audio/video without knowing all the codecs. > > You cannot easily do file searches without specifying all those > > extensions either. > > > Nor can filter audio/video without specifying all of `wma`,

Hi Folks, FWIW I figured out the /etc/magic file entries for both native and Ogg wrappered Speex, Vorbis and FLAC (attached). YMMV because the fields aren't necessarily in fixed positions in the files, but it works fine for me. Feel free to include it in the Xiph archives or forward it to the /etc/magic file maintainer once you're satisfied with it. John -------------- next part