Is your audio/mpeg helper associates with the mp3 extension?
Mozilla has NO internal mime type associations anymore.
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> The readme for this version says:
>
> | Mozilla now uses MIME information from system and user mime.types and
> | mailcap files if the appropriate preferences are set. Example:
> |
> | user_pref("helpers.global_mailcap_file", "C:\\OS2\\mailcap");
> | user_pref("helpers.global_mime_types_file", "C:\\OS2\\mime.types");
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:21:16 -0500 Michael Kaply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > These are used to specify default mime types for extensions.
> >
> > For example, when you load a .pdf file form your hard drive, how does
> > Mozilla know it is an application/pdf? It is specified in mime.types
> >
> > And yes, putting things in helper apps solves this.
> >
> > But you can use mailcap and mime.types to preload operating system level
> > mime types and handlers.
>
> When I click with Mozilla/2 on a .mid file on my local disk, the
> helper application I have defined for audio/x-midi is invoked, and
> the file plays. [I presume this is because Mozilla internally
> makes an association from .mid to audio/x-midi.]
>
> When I click with Mozilla/2 on a .mp3 file on my local disk, the
> helper application I have defined for audio/mpeg is *not* invoked
> -- instead Mozilla/2 offers to "download" the file for me. [I
> presume this is because Mozilla does *not* "automatically" make
> an association from .mp3 to audio/mpeg.]
>
> I would like to be able to click on a local .mp3 file, and have
> Mozilla call the helper application I have defined for audio/mpeg.
> What do I have to put into 'mime.types' and 'mailcap' in order
> to accomplish this ? (i.e., What are their formats ?)
>
> Thanks, mikus
