From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:43:42 +1100

1) I think this is a pointless topic because how often do people have their
files wrongly extensioned?
2) as far as playback is concerned, it is at best non trivial to make it
work and would slow down buffering and increase bin/ram usage for a mostly
pointless addition.
3) I don't see why this would be needed immediately in this plugin. Sure it
would be a nice addition but there is no reason it must happen straight
away.
On 11/11/2010 9:16 AM, "Johannes Linke" <johannes.linke_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 10.11.2010 23:03, schrieb Jonathan Gordon:
>> 2010/11/10 Jonas Häggqvist<rasher_at_rasher.dk>:
>>> How do the codecs handle this?
>> Silently ignores the file. Just tried copying a .mp3 to .flac and
>> playing it, track is completely skipped with no reason given.
>>
> What is the problem with checking for those magic numbers,
> playing/displaying the file and informing the user (maybe by a splash)
> that the filename is not correct? If it's not hard to implement that i
> don't see a reason against this. If it is hard, the user should still be
> informed that the file format is not correct.
Received on 2010-11-10