filtering playable files in a collection

    I'm toying with phonon for a test media player. one of the things this
media player is to scan a directory for playable files. now, I know I can ask
the phonon backen for the mimetypes playable with it, but how do I filter the
files found? f.i., how do I get the mimetype of a file? one simple solution
would be to filter by extension, but then I would have to maintain the list of
valid extensions and I don't like the solution anyways. so, any ideas? how do
other players do it?

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Em Quinta-feira 3. Setembro 2009, às 06.38.45, Marcos Dione escreveu:
>     I'm toying with phonon for a test media player. one of the things this
> media player is to scan a directory for playable files. now, I know I can
>  ask the phonon backen for the mimetypes playable with it, but how do I
>  filter the files found? f.i., how do I get the mimetype of a file? one
>  simple solution would be to filter by extension, but then I would have to
>  maintain the list of valid extensions and I don't like the solution
>  anyways. so, any ideas? how do other players do it?

KDE has classes for detecting the MIME type of a file.

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On Thursday, 2009-09-03, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Em Quinta-feira 3. Setembro 2009, às 06.38.45, Marcos Dione escreveu:
> >     I'm toying with phonon for a test media player. one of the things
> > this media player is to scan a directory for playable files. now, I know
> > I can ask the phonon backen for the mimetypes playable with it, but how
> > do I filter the files found? f.i., how do I get the mimetype of a file?
> > one simple solution would be to filter by extension, but then I would
> > have to maintain the list of valid extensions and I don't like the
> > solution anyways. so, any ideas? how do other players do it?
>
> KDE has classes for detecting the MIME type of a file.

E.g.KMimeType::findByPath() or KMimeType::findByUrl()

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