Re: Fwd: shared-mime-info: Identify soundfonts
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:14:30PM +0000, tim hall wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> To celebrate the release of Fluidsynth-1.0.8 and the FluidR3 soundfont
> package, I think it would be a good step to sort out the identification
> of SF2 and SFARK mimetypes. Currently SF2 files are identified as
> video/x-msvideo, which just doesn't seem right.
The old but still very useable command-line program "file" does identify
soundfonts correctly AFAICS:
file FluidR3_GM.sf2
FluidR3_GM.sf2: RIFF (little-endian) data SoundFont/Bank
Maybe something can be learned by looking at what "file" checks for when
it decides that this is a SoundFont/Bank type of file?
Tomas
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