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Title: Wrong extension?
Post by: LynXX on November 26, 2024, 21:36:28

Hi,

This module: https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&query=187398 is listed as format MOD, but is in fact a FastTracker 2 (XM) file.

Should the file extension be changed to .xm ?

Nico

Title: Re: Wrong extension?
Post by: looper231 on November 26, 2024, 22:01:02

FYI: Fasttracker 2 is capable of saving files in .MOD.
.XM deciphers as eXtended Mod

so, considering this, there is nothing wrong here

Title: Re: Wrong extension?
Post by: looper231 on November 26, 2024, 22:04:19

It's also worth to mention, that Fasttracker 1 also saved the tunes in .MOD format, so there's always a possibility, it was just an FT1 module

Title: Re: Wrong extension?
Post by: LynXX on November 28, 2024, 21:00:27

I meant the file is actually an "eXtended Mod", if you look at it with an hex editor:

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00000000  45 78 74 65 6e 64 65 64  20 4d 6f 64 75 6c 65 3a  |Extended Module:|
00000010  20 63 68 69 6c 64 72 65  6e 20 6f 66 20 67 6f 64  | children of god|
00000020  2e 2e 2e 20 20 1a 46 61  73 74 54 72 61 63 6b 65  |...  .FastTracke|
00000030  72 20 76 32 2e 30 30 20  20 20 04 01 14 01 00 00  |r v2.00   ......|
00000040  20 00 00 00 10 00 20 00  0a 00 01 00 03 00 96 00  | ..... .........|
00000050  00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07  08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f  |................|
00000060  10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17  18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f  |................|
00000070  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

Thus a .xm extension might be more appropriate...

Title: Re: Wrong extension?
Post by: looper231 on November 29, 2024, 15:05:28

Like I've mentioned above, Fasttracker is capable of saving in .MOD

Title: Re: Wrong extension?
Post by: cs127 on November 29, 2024, 15:21:14

Quote from: looper231 on November 29, 2024, 15:05:28

Like I've mentioned above, Fasttracker is capable of saving in .MOD

looper, you're missing the point. this is not a mod file!

if you look at the file in a hex editor, it has the structure of an xm file, and if you load it into openmpt, it detects the format as xm, and it even has commands in the volume column (which is not a feature in mod).

this is undoubtedly an xm file. it's named incorrectly as .mod.
the modarchive info page thinks it's in mod format because I assume it gets that information from the file extension (which is wrong in this case), and not the content.

Title: Re: Wrong extension?
Post by: looper231 on December 07, 2024, 11:52:58

The file should be .xm now.
Thanks for making it clear and sorry for taking time