Bug 135206 - M3U playlist file type listed as Streaming MPEG Layer 3 Audio
Summary: M3U playlist file type listed as Streaming MPEG Layer 3 Audio
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Reported: 2006-10-06 17:02 UTC by jg
Modified: 2012-01-05 23:50 UTC (History)
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Description jg 2006-10-06 17:02:08 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

In my view the the M3U playlist file type description is not accurate

At present it is listed as: Streaming MPEG Layer 3 Audio

The files are not necessarily streamed over the internet, they are very often local files.

It should say: MP3 playlist

Would you agree?

Kind regards
Jon
Comment 1 lexual 2006-10-16 15:00:10 UTC
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=65772

http://hanna.pyxidis.org/tech/m3u.html

I agree that the current description should be improved.
Perhaps it shouldn't be "MP3 playlist" though, as it appears that the playlist doesn't necessarily have to contain mp3s. Perhaps "M3U Playlist File"?
Comment 2 jg 2006-10-16 15:16:54 UTC
Hi Lexual,

Thanks for confirming.  Perhaps "M3U Playlist" sounds good to me (as you suggest, just without the "File" word at the end).

I notice there is another field on the File Properties General tab, it says "Contents", is this a guess at the file contents?  Because for M3U files it either says "Plain Text Document" or "C Source Code File" (I can't remember the exact name for the C Source one, but something like that.

So maybe the way the "Contents" is figured out might have a problem for M3U files.

Does KDE have a file mime-type guessing function? Which looks at the file extension and the file contents etc?

Kind regards
Jon
Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-05-19 18:20:14 UTC
KDE4 says "MP3 audio (streamed)" which is not precise because it could contain OGG for example.
Comment 4 Dawit Alemayehu 2012-01-04 23:37:31 UTC
This needs to be reported to freedesktop.org since KDE's file assocation for the most part comes from the shared-mime-info package. KDE does add its own specific files, but overriding the definition of a type that already exists is something that should be avoided as much as possible.
Comment 5 jg 2012-01-05 23:50:15 UTC
Thanks for the reply.

Can it be redirected to freedesktop? I opened this bug 5 years ago. I no longer use KDE so is not relevant to me. The issue may already be fixed in latest freedeskop and KDE.

I think bugs should'nt be allowed to be open for so long.. KDE need to hire some QA team!