How to find the file type.

[Michael Pyne]

On Monday 01 August 2005 16:56, Mark Bryars wrote:
> I'm writing a small utility at the moment using taglib, but i'd like to
> be able to find out what the file type of the file is, without assuming
> its the extension, is there a function to do this? I've not seen one, am
> I being blind or dense?

I believe that the rationale is that this is out of the scope of this kind of 
library.  i.e. most development environments already provide code to detect 
the file type of a file (e.g. KMimeType::findByContent() if you are 
programming for KDE).

GNOME (but not GTK+) also has a similar mechanism.  I'd paste the function 
names but my eyes are already burning.  It's documented at 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gnome-vfs-2.0/gnome-vfs-20-gnome-vfs-mime.html

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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