[Building Sakai] the MIME type of mp3 file stored in resource tool( sakai 2.6)

[Kimberly Ma]

Folks,
Here is the issue, I have a faculty member created a Test in Test/Quizzes, He has two mp3 files, one stored in rci.rutgers.edu(http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jcamacho/tst.mp3 )
 another in sakai resource tool(https://sakai.rutgers.edu/access/content/group/d9055a0e-9bf1-4bf5-ac2a-edf9086a97eb/tst.mp3), exactly the same mp3 file in two different locations.

He embedded those two files in the question text in two different questions.   When his student reaches that test page in Internet Explorer 7.0.5. The  first question which has the file stored in rci.rutgers.edu has no problem to play, however the second one which has the file in sakai resource prompts IE to find the plugin, and IE could not find the plug in, so it fails to play. The MIME type of mp3 file in Sakai is set as audio/mpeg(from resource tool, click on "edit details"). After further investigation, I found out that MIME type of the mp3 from sakai set as MPEG LAYER 3 AUDIO, (if you try to play the file and verify what I said, click the link above.) The one from rci.rutgers.edu is AUDIO MPEG OBJECT.  I guess he probably needs to install MPEG Layer-3 audio codec in order to play the file.
 However I need to understand why sakai resource stores mp3 as MPEG LAYER 3 AUDIO. not just AUDIO MPEG. And also because we can't control the client side browser's setting,the faculty will have a problem when he embeds the mp3 file stored in sakai resource tool.

Any help will be highly appreciated !

-Kim

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[Mark Norton]

I think it might be fairly easy to change the MIME mappings in the
Content Hosting Service.  That might solve the problem for you without
any extensive code modifications.

- Mark Norton

Kimberly Ma wrote:

> Folks,
> Here is the issue, I have a faculty member created a Test in
> Test/Quizzes, He has two mp3 files, one stored in rci.rutgers.edu
> <http://rci.rutgers.edu>(http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jcamacho/tst.mp3 
> <http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ejcamacho/tst.mp3> )
>  another in sakai resource
> tool(https://sakai.rutgers.edu/access/content/group/d9055a0e-9bf1-4bf5-ac2a-edf9086a97eb/tst.mp3),
> exactly the same mp3 file in two different locations.
>
> He embedded those two files in the question text in two different
> questions.   When his student reaches that test page in Internet
> Explorer 7.0.5. The  first question which has the file stored in
> rci.rutgers.edu <http://rci.rutgers.edu> has no problem to play,
> however the second one which has the file in sakai resource prompts IE
> to find the plugin, and IE could not find the plug in, so it fails to
> play. The MIME type of mp3 file in Sakai is set as audio/mpeg(from
> resource tool, click on "edit details"). After further investigation,
> I found out that MIME type of the mp3 from sakai set as MPEG LAYER 3
> AUDIO, (if you try to play the file and verify what I said, click the
> link above.) The one from rci.rutgers.edu <http://rci.rutgers.edu> is
> AUDIO MPEG OBJECT.  I guess he probably needs to install MPEG Layer-3
> audio codec in order to play the file.
>  However I need to understand why sakai resource stores mp3 as MPEG
> LAYER 3 AUDIO. not just AUDIO MPEG. And also because we can't control
> the client side browser's setting,the faculty will have a problem when
> he embeds the mp3 file stored in sakai resource tool.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated !
>
> -Kim
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