Caps for module music formats

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

On 2013-08-14 22:24, Tim-Philipp Müller wrote:
> 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
>
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Yeah, I agree, and also favor (1). I just wasn't sure if there is some 
kind of convention or rule to use separate media types for formats.
(But then again, there is the whole audio/mpeg and video/mpeg thing..)

If nobody objects to (1) , then I will post a patch to bugzilla to 
introduce the additional caps.