Re: MIME Type incorrectly applied

[email protected] wrote:

> I'm a new ROX user, and I'm setting up my various configurations.  I've
> run across at least one incorrectly applied mime-type, though.  In my
> music folders, I have an *.m3u file which holds the playlist for the
> directory.  When I try to apply an action to it (Audacious, in my case),
> ROX wants to change the action for "text/plain"  I looked up where *.m3u
> might be referenced in /usr/share/mime, and found these entries:
> 
> /usr/share/mime/globs:
> 
> audio/x-mpegurl:*.m3u
> application/vnd.apple.mpegurl:*.m3u
> 
> Also, in /usr/share/mime/audio:
> 
> x-mpegurl.xml:  <alias type="application/m3u"/>
> x-mpegurl.xml:  <alias type="audio/m3u"/>
> x-mpegurl.xml:  <alias type="audio/x-m3u"/>
> x-mpegurl.xml:  <glob pattern="*.m3u"/>
> x-mpegurl.xml:  <glob pattern="*.m3u8"/>
> 
> So clearly the mime type should be "audio/x-mpgurl" based on globbing.
> 
> I used the ROX MIME-editor, and when I pull up audio/x-mpegurl, it, too,
> shows, right in the first section ("Name matching")
> Match "*.m3u"
> Match "*.m3u8"
> Match "*.vlc"
> 
> On the (far-fetched) theory that spaces in the filename were causing
> problems, I tried it with no spaces, but it had no effect.
> 
> My question is, how do I determine where ROX is getting the "text/plain"
> MIME type for *.m3u, and how do I get it to find the CORRECT one?  Are
> there MIME shared libraries ROX depends on? (I built this system from
> scratch, so no "yum" or "apt-get" please.)

Just confirm that the .m3u file is not empty.  Zero length files are always
classified as text/plain.

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