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Music Production => Players => PC Players => Topic started by: inhahe on September 26, 2008, 00:31:52

Title: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: inhahe on September 26, 2008, 00:31:52
Does anyone know of a mod player for Windows that will loop mods that have the loop instruction?  I.e. the mod tells it to jump back to a previous track, and it loops indefinitely.  thx

Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: raina on September 26, 2008, 01:18:32
Sounds like a fairly standard feature but XMPlay, for one, certainly has it. You just have to enable looping.
Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: Saga Musix on September 26, 2008, 12:52:07
XMPlay (http://un4seen.com) is kinda specialized on this stuff :) You can loops tracks forever or just once, you can fade them out, etc...
Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: inhahe on September 26, 2008, 21:27:22
thanks guys.  XMPlay seems to do the trick.  it's kind of funny, though; apparently it will only heed the mod's looping instruction if i turn repeat on (referring to the little button with the curvy arrows), and if i turn repeat on it loops any mod with or without a looping instruction.  yet in the options you can select to loop only if there's a loop instruction or only if the loop instruction doesn't point all the way to the beginning.  so doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.

and one of my favorite mods, elysium.mod, which loops, won't load under xmplay.  i click on it and it simply closes the file selection dialog and does absolutely nothing. :/ i wondered if perhaps it just doesn't support mods with more than 4 channels, although that's strange since it supports .it, .xm, .s3m, .mp3, .ogg, .wma, etc.



Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: Saga Musix on September 26, 2008, 22:23:57
if you mean Elysium by Jester, that works fine in XMPlay here... if not, well... xmplay supports many formats, but it doesn't support .MODs with only 15 samples - you can convert them or use the oldsk00l plugin (see support.xmplay.com).
Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: inhahe on September 26, 2008, 22:44:15
Yeah, the one by jester..  that's strange, it just won't load on mine.  maybe my elysium.mod is different somehow.  it claims to have 4 channels and 31 samples though.  my file is 86,676 bytes and has an md5 of 78DE755B1B6E122F57A789C4934F238B.

Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: inhahe on September 26, 2008, 22:49:29
ok, i downloaded the one from modarchive and it's the same song but a different size.  i think i vaguely remember that the one i have used some sort of stripping or internal compression or something like that.  it works now :d
Title: Re: modplayer that will loop mods
Post by: raina on September 26, 2008, 23:19:17
The xmp-modpacker plugin could help with your original file.