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[SOLVED] How to change/add artist's name
« on: May 26, 2018, 15:59:14 »

How can I add the artist's name to the .xm files?
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Re: How to change/add artist's name
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2018, 23:22:41 »

The XM format has no standardized way to do this; the most common way is to write a message in the instrument names.
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Re: How to change/add artist's name
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2018, 01:26:09 »

Got it! I think I'll put it in the samples field tho...
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Re: [SOLVED] How to change/add artist's name
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2018, 23:51:04 »

It's a convention to use the instrument text rather than sample text in XM for this; in particular because the sample list is not continuous like in e.g. S3M or IT, but a number of sample slots is assigned to each instrument instead. And practically, in Fasttracker 2 you will be able to read more instrument names than sample names at once.
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