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if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because...

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Definitely FLAC for audio because it's lossless, if you record from a high fidelity source....

exFAT for external hard drives and SD cards because both Windows and Mac can read and write to it as well as Linux. And you don't have the permission pain....

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some sort of machine-readable format for invoices and documents with related purposes (offers, bills of delivery, receipts,...) would be useful to get rid of some more of the informal paper or PDF human-readable documents we still use a lot. Ideally something JSON-based, perhaps with a cryptographic signature and encryption layer around it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This one exists. SEPA or ISO20022. Encryption/signing isn't included in the format, it's managed on transfer layer, but that's pretty much the standard every business around here works and many don't even accept PDFs or other human-readable documents anymore if you want to get your money.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

i hate to be that guy, but pick the right tool for the right job. use markdown for a readme and latex for a research paper. you dont need to create 'the ultimate file format' that can do both, but worse and less compatible

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

i'd like there to be a way to standardise midi info in plugins for music

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

.dontuse for snaps

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Open Raster as an interchange format instead of PSDs. It would be nice if I could open the same file in GIMP or Krita that I can in Photoshop.

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