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Music Production => MilkyTracker => Tracking => MilkyPlay => Topic started by: WeaPea on May 23, 2007, 20:20:04
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can someone do me a mod player for my pocket? i am tired to listen only mp3¨s with my pocket player. i like to have listen mods and others with it! can anyone do me a elecktronik pocket player for mod-music ? thanks.
btw: who invent it, can make lots of money!
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I guess that's a pretty hard job :D But you may ask reed (he's on IRC for the most time), he got a mobile phone that can play SIDs and MODs :hrrhrr:
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how keen are you to do this?
it's possible if you have a PDA running palm OS, there is tracker software called Psytexx (kindly brought to my attention by Eagle a while ago)
with Psytexx 2.0 you can play back and track .MOD and .XM
kinda hard work tracking on a PDA though
http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/palm/
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MilkyTracker is available on some PDA systems, amoung them Windows CE or whatever it's called. I think Pailes may be developing the Tracker for more handheld platforms, too.
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Milkyplay is also available, it's a standalone modplayer from Milkytracker developer pailes. Now, the thing is we're assuming what WeaPea is using is a PDA - he calls it a Pocket player , probably meaning he want someone to build the hardware and distribute a hardware mod player... yuk - this is not necessary.
However, if we don't know exactly what this is how can the suggestions here be relevant? :razz:
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My suggestion creates a workable mobile mod player. granted it costs a wee bit but you never know what kind of hardware peops can get hold of....
I don't see a genuine portable mod player being especially marketable, unfortunately. Although it sounds like an interesting project...
is anyone here smart enough to hack an mp3 player so it will play mods?
I know I'm not... :razz:
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There is a firmware for the iRiver that allows you to play modules. I don't know the details, but I do know someone who knows someone who's got one.
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An iPod with a custom firmware or iPod Linux might able to play modules as well.
I guess the cheapest solution is to get a PDA from ebay since it usually doesn't need a patched firmware for 3rd party applications.
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*sigh*
Just get a cheap MP3 player (they're all cheap nowadays) and convert your MODs/SIDs/XMs/whatever to MP3 format. You'll save yourself a whole bunch of hassle.
If you already own a WinCE/PocketPC or PSP then get Milkyplay and nag pailes to add mp3/ogg support ;)
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Just get a cheap MP3 player (they're all cheap nowadays) and convert your MODs/SIDs/XMs/whatever to MP3 format. You'll save yourself a whole bunch of hassle.
hehe, i'd rather like an 1 GB mod player than an 1 GB mp3 player... My 1gb mp3 player is already full, but that aren't much tracks in comparison to the content of an mod player.. :) and converting all my mods to mp3 would take faaaaar to much time :)
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I normally copy only the music I wish to listen to onto my MP3 player, not my entire collection - so 1gig of MP3s is ample listening material. Also, the quality of the conversions done on a PC can be of much higher quality (one of the players I have emulates the hardware of the Amiga and uses the original playback code to playback mods and other more exotic Amiga formats).
and converting all my mods to mp3 would take faaaaar to much time
Well.. It's possible to convert my entire collection using one command line, taking all of 30 seconds to write ;)
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I normally copy only the music I wish to listen to onto my MP3 player, not my entire collection - so 1gig of MP3s is ample listening material. Also, the quality of the conversions done on a PC can be of much higher quality (one of the players I have emulates the hardware of the Amiga and uses the original playback code to playback mods and other more exotic Amiga formats).
and converting all my mods to mp3 would take faaaaar to much time
Well.. It's possible to convert my entire collection using one command line, taking all of 30 seconds to write ;)
Please do share that info. Very useful to know :)
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of course, the command line works, but i think i would have to write a parser for my M3U first (which is really easy btw) and it would still take much time to convert the mods into wavs and then into mp3s, even if done automatically... and it would also not the best solution coz i remove silence normally in the wav editor..
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I was about to write a command line for this, but then I remembered that Winamp has a disk writer plugin (maybe XMPlay does too) which will convert a playlist into a bunch of WAV files, which you can then use 'lame *.wav' to convert to MP3..
On Linux using Audacious, it takes 2-3 seconds for each file to be converted, then about 5-10 seconds per file to convert to MP3 (all of which can be done in the background).
Regarding the silence at the end of the tracks (not that I've noticed this when using Audacious for playback), I've just done a quick google and found plenty tools that do this automatically. You could combine this with the MP3 encoding step.
So.. cheap pocket-sized MP3 player plus a little work and you can listen to mods on the move. The alternative is to buy something bigger and more expensive (and battery hungry), and fiddle around getting a mod/xm/it/s3m/sid/whatever player to work - which won't sound as good as converting them on the PC.
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well, i can't do that with winamp, as i disabled the standard mod plugin (it's just pure sh*t) and use the BASS Plugin (xmplay playback!). Unfortunately, this plugin does not use the winamp playback buffer...
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can someone do me a mod player for my pocket? i am tired to listen only mp3¨s with my pocket player. i like to have listen mods and others with it! can anyone do me a elecktronik pocket player for mod-music ? thanks.
btw: who invent it, can make lots of money!
It's a bit hard to make out but I'm pretty sure he does in fact not have an mp3 player/PDA, but rather he wants you guys to construct one for him.
Note this part:
btw: who invent it, can make lots of money!
Yes, tracker modules is such an expansive market, you could probably earn more there than supporting a band of guerrillas with guns and ammo!
Shit guys, what are you waiting for ~_=
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If you have a Nintendo DS, you can get cards for running homebrew. Moon Shell and DSOrganize will both play XM files, though there's a memory limit of around 3 meg.
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If you have a Nintendo DS, you can get cards for running homebrew. Moon Shell and DSOrganize will both play XM files, though there's a memory limit of around 3 meg.
I'd recommend a PSP, it has got much more CPU power and it has got the best module player ever ;)
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sadly, most homebrew didnt run on a psp slim with 3.71-M33 firmware -.-
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Get an iPod touch/iPhone, Jailbreak it and compile some mod player for it. Makes up a really nice portable mod playing device.
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thanks about the answers that were good!
i probably get some nokia phone, and place my mp3s there.. nice to have a callingsounds that no one else has!