Re: Audio type

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:44:13 GMT, "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com>
wrote:

>> There's the "mime magic" function:
>>
>> http://uk2.php.net/mime_content_type
>>
>> ... which looks for magic numbers in the file to make a decent guess as to
>> what format a file is. Not foolproof, but generally reasonable.
>
>Thanks, I'll try it. I looked at the URL you posted, but couldn't figure
>out what to look for to ascertain if it is an audio file. I assume that for
>an audio file it will output something like "audio/something" and I could
>check for the a match on the first five characters.

 Yes, that sounds right.

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