Summary of a few Multimedia MIME types

Name Extension(s) MIME Type Description
HyperText Markup Language .html .htm text/html The basis for the World Wide Web
u-law .au audio/basic Sun u-law files in 8 kHz audio format. Low Quality
Wave files .wav audio/x-wav Microsoft's custom audio format
Audio Interchange File Format .aiff .aif .aifc audio.x-aiff Audio formats commonly used on Macintoshes
Macintosh Sound .snd audio/basic resource file old style Macintosh sound file
MIDI formats .mid .midi audio/midi audio/x-midi MIDI digital music interface coding
Real Audio .ra .ram audio/x-pr-realaudio Progressive Networks Real Audio for streaming and pseudo-streaming of high quality sound (now most used format
Moving Pictures Expert Group Standard (MPEG) .mpg .mpeg .mp2 audio/x-mpeg Digital-quality (possibly) audio playable on all platforms. Can be streamed or downloaded or accompanied by a movie
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