The "Type" column shows you the type of each device.

Note that with MMPM/2, a "device" can, but does not have to be a physical piece of hardware on your system. For organizational purposes, MMPM/2 creates "logical" devices as well to coordinate multimedia.

MMPM/2 defines 19 media device types altogether, but this is rather theoretical, because so far, drivers exist only for a small subset of these categories. On a typical multimedia computer, you will have the following devices: