Caps for module music formats

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 21:47 +0200, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote:

Hi,

> I have been extending the typefind functions to detect more module 
> formats, and to give caps more details.
> Currently, all of the formats (MOD, XM, S3M, IT, PSM, ...) are labeled 
> as "audio/x-mod". However, different module players support different 
> sets of formats.
> Therefore, it would be better if the caps described the format in more 
> detail.
> 
> I see three options:
> 
> 1. Continue using audio/x-mod as the media type, and add another field, 
> "mod-type", of type string. This field can then have values like "xm", 
> "s3m", "ult" etc.
> 2. Replace audio/x-mod with audio/x-s3m, audio/x-xm, etc.
> 3. Replace audio/x-mod with audio/x-mod-s3m, audio/x-mod-xm, etc.
> 
> The first one is backwards compatible. However, it lumps different 
> formats into one media type. I am not sure if that is okay.
> The second one is probably too ambiguous, and not backwards compatible. 
> audio/x-mod used to mean "any kind of module format", now it would mean 
> "MOD module format". In addition, audio/x-xm could be misunderstood as 
> "XM radio".
> The third one is not as ambiguous as the second, but probably confuses 
> people, especially with "audio/x-mod-mod".
> 
> Opinions?

I would suggest 1) for backwards-compatibility reasons. I don't see any
huge benefits of differentiating at the media type level, so it comes
down mostly to taste, no?

 Cheers
  -Tim