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

[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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