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Project / Coder's Corner / [Discussion] New module format - openModplug

« on: June 02, 2007, 16:39:13 »

by the way, i've never understood why modplug is always the "bad guy" in the scene. i mean, it does the same to IT format Impulse Tracker did to S3M, what many other trackers did to the original MOD format (including Fast Tracker)...

That is only partly true. Both Fasttracker and Impulse Tracker invent new file formats to store their proprietary extensions. They do not alter the original file formats to be able to store information that hasn't been intented, like ModPlug does.

You can read about it here:
http://dumb.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=docs&doc=modplug

And that's only a little example how ModPlug tries to "enhance" the IT format. It also allows for incompatible XM modules having stereo samples, more than 32 channels etc. which FT2 can no longer read.
Besides that, ModPlug tracker makes no attempt at identifying itself as *the* tracker of creation, it writes "FastTracker 2" into the XM header, making it very difficult to detect whether the file has been saved with ModPlug.

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Project / Coder's Corner / [Discussion] New module format - openModplug

« on: June 02, 2007, 11:47:21 »

Hopefully they come up with this new file format. So no more crippled/non-standard/incompatible IT/XM/MOD style modules made with ModPlug please.

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MilkyPlay / can someone do mod player for my pocket?

« on: June 02, 2007, 11:04:32 »

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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Tracking / Mod playing length

« on: March 02, 2007, 17:33:57 »

"Bunch of bugs", eh?

Well, since MilkyTracker plays the entire song with all features to calculate the song length I really doubt this is going wrong and I have made a lot of testing to ensure it is correct. When there is no playback problem and the WAV writer writes the song correctly to the disk the song length estimation will work as well.

But I remember having fixed one single bug which caused the estimation routine to fail with an S3M I've found ("Armani Showers") but now it works correctly, maybe this is the problem you're referring to as this is still waiting for a bugfix release.

You know that there is only one pattern loop command (E6x) and not a bunch of them, don't you? (Because you were speaking of "pattern repeat" and "looping" as a different thing.

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Tracking / Mod playing length

« on: March 02, 2007, 11:42:33 »

MilkyTracker (which is my own tracker) does what I stated above. Differences are zero (and it has the advantage that you don't need to write much additional code).

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Tracking / Mod playing length

« on: March 02, 2007, 01:11:33 »

The best thing you can do is playing the entire module completely for one time without mixing it, it can be done in a few seconds (even less) on modern CPUs.