hi Thank you very much for that link. I now have some of the bits I need to create a fully functioning mime type. The one thing I'm missing is a way of uniquely identifying audible audio files without relying on the file extension. If I can't find this, creating a mime type will be pretty easy, but I'd prefer to be able to uniquely identify the file type if possible. It's amusing. The audible website swears that you can't convert their files into other formats, and yet I did so via ffmpeg. What else should I do? I can't seem to find an accessible hex editor, so if anyone is willing to help me out there by getting some form of magic info, integer, string, etc that I can use to single out the audible format I'd really appreciate it. Don't worry, I'm not asking anyone to do all the work for me, I'm still going to file the bug and make sure everything complies with the mime spec. Thanks Kendell Clark
Jerome Leclanche wrote: > Your first step will be figuring out if there is any existing media > type for this type of file. > > Looking at http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000103.shtml#sign > I see audio/audible > audio/x-pn-audibleaudio, the latter which looks like it could be used in xdg. > > After that you'll want to file a bug on the freedesktop bugzilla > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/), and provide a patch if possible. > There's other mime type requests on that bugzilla you can take example > on. > J. Leclanche > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:33 AM, kendell clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> hi all >> After a lot of digging through my cd collection, I came across an >> audible audio file I had backed up who knows how long ago. I've been >> wanting to create fully functioning mime types for this and it's >> enhanced audio counterpart for a while now. I'm a complete novice at >> this, so I'm looking for any willing helpers. I can upload the files >> somewhere so if anyone decides to help me they can have access to them. >> Note that these are legal files, legally obtained from audible with an >> active account, mine. Well, not active anymore, but it was when these >> files were obtained. These seem to be mp3 files with some strange stuff >> at the beginning, because simply renaming the file extension doesn't >> allow them to be played, but I can easily convert them with ffmpeg. Any >> help would be greatly appreciated. >> Thanks >> Kendell Clark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
