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Presumedly to distinguish it from "unencapsulated" flac. I'm not sure this makes sense though. Native flac is a fairly light container, and I suspect the current application/x-flac usage is just an analogy with ogg. OTOH, I don't think anyone's done flac over rtp, where this would be needed, but that is something that's interesting.
Presumedly to distinguish it from "unencapsulated" flac. I'm not sure this makes sense though. Native flac is a fairly light container, and I suspect the current application/x-flac usage is just an analogy with ogg. OTOH, I don't think anyone's done flac over rtp, where this would be needed, but that is something that's interesting.
:I don't believe this should be endorsed.  Academic thinking instead of pratical thinking moves us away from mainstream success.--[[User:Saoshyant|Ivo]] 10:32, 8 June 2007 (PDT)

Revision as of 10:32, 8 June 2007

.flac - application/flac

Why not audio/flac?

Presumedly to distinguish it from "unencapsulated" flac. I'm not sure this makes sense though. Native flac is a fairly light container, and I suspect the current application/x-flac usage is just an analogy with ogg. OTOH, I don't think anyone's done flac over rtp, where this would be needed, but that is something that's interesting.

I don't believe this should be endorsed. Academic thinking instead of pratical thinking moves us away from mainstream success.--Ivo 10:32, 8 June 2007 (PDT)