Mimetypes: Lossless audio files

[hlechner]

Lossless formats:

• [ ] FLAC audio ((audio/flac) (audio/x-flac) (audio/x-flac+ogg))
• [ ] WAV audio (audio/x-wav)
• [ ] Monkey's audio ((audio/x-monkeys-audio) (audio/x-ape))
• [ ] WavPack audio (audio/x-wavpack)
• [ ] TrueAudio audio (audio/x-tta)
• [ ] Shorten audio (application/x-shorten)

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Description:

Lossless compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of the original data, though this usually improves compression rates (and therefore reduces file sizes).

The idea is to create a differentiated mimetype for lossless audio files, making it easy to be organized.

gvfs-info: here

Old Issue: https://github.com/hlechner/hl-numix-mime/issues/4

Design Association: Music note symbols, sound waves, sound wave bars, Premium sign (Plus, Ribbon, Medal, etc)

Icons as reference:

Numix-Circle Related Icons: Numix Related Icons: Non-Numix theme related icons: Other Individual Icons:

[hlechner]

Old drafts: (from old topic)

[hlechner]

Hey guys @Foggalong @palob @ChuckDaniels87 @wa4557 could you guys please give me some ideas on this one?

I know, I avoid to mention people like that, it's just because I'm totally stuck on this for months and I really trying a lot but nothing comes to my mind even that I made a big research about it.

[Foggalong]

Not especially keen on adding those wave things to the icon

[hlechner]

that are just old drafts, that i made just to try something and maybe progress from it to another design idea.

However I couldn't find a better design idea yet. the old drafts are not supposed to be merged anyway.

[ismaelgv]

Different colour and extension label? Actually, there are all audio formats, both lossless and compressed. You can assign one colour to compressed and another one to lossless.

[palob]

Yeah, text labels sounds like the easiest yet not the most elegant solution. A different colour isn't very self-evident.

[ismaelgv]

I mean both of them.

[Foggalong]

Yeah, I'm game for both :)

[palob]

So should we add text labels for all audio/video mimetypes eventually (for consistency's sake)?

[hlechner]

Thanks @ChuckDaniels87 good idea

and guys, which color should I use? Maybe just a different tone?

Oh, now I remembered a possible problem, we normally use the text to show the extension, however there are some mimetypes that each can have different extensions. So in that case what we should do? or maybe just skip these ones?

[palob]

Well, the JPG-labelled mimetype for instance is used for the extensions .jpg .jpeg .jpe .... TGZ is .tar.gz. or .tgz ... GZIP is .gz

Is there one characteristic abbreviation for th new mimetypes?

The label should represent the mimetype (which is what counts for GNU/Linux systems) rather than the extension.

[hlechner]

Yea, I think it's possible to use the most common type of the mime, for example the mp4a is a apple lossless but it's recognized as normal mp4 due to format used by the file. (this lossless I didn't add in the list for this reason)

[palob]

Ah OK, so it's not that easy and there might arise confusion in some cases.

[palob]

Maybe a different colour (a bit darker/lighter) isn't that bad a solution.

Or how a about a different colour for the note or a semiquaver note?

[hlechner]

Original one:

-- drafts: With semiquaver note symbol:

Darker (base color/symbol):

What do you think @palob ?

[palob]

Is there a way to have the semiquaver more in line with the existing note design?

[hlechner]

I'm trying to adapt the symbol, but until now, not good results so far.

If you know any design as reference please let me know.