XM (file Format)
XM, standing for "extended module", is an audio file type introduced by Triton's FastTracker 2. XM introduced multisampling-capable instruments with volume and panning envelopes, sample looping and basic pattern compression. It also expanded the available effect commands and channels, added 16-bit sample support, and offered an alternative frequency table for portamentos. XM is a common format for many module files. The file format has been initially documented by its creator in the file XM.TXT, which accompanied the 2.08 release of FastTracker 2, as well as its latest known beta version2.09b The file, written in 1994 and attributed to Mr.H of Triton (Fredrik Huss), bears the header "The XM module format description for XM files version $0104." The contents of the file have been posted on this article's Talk subpage for reference. This documentation is however said to be incomplete and insufficient to properly recreate the behaviour of the original program. The MilkyTrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Triton (demogroup)
Triton (TRN) was a demogroup active in the PC demoscene from 1992 to about 1996. History Triton's first demo, ''Crystal Dream'', was released in the summer of 1992 and won the PC demo competition at the Hackerence V demo party. Their second and last demo, ''Crystal Dream 2'', was released in June 1993 and won the demo competition at The Computer Crossroads 1993 party in Gothenburg. It featured complex 3D scenes and demo effects such as vector slime. In 1993 they released a multi-channel MOD composer called Fast Tracker, followed by the XM module composer Fast Tracker 2 in 1994. Triton created a commercial demo for Gravis Ultrasound cards. Most of their work was done using a combination of x86 assembler and Pascal using either Turbo Pascal or Borland Pascal 7 compilers. Triton began developing on a fighting game named ''Into the Shadows''. A game demo showing a character was released in 1995, but the development was stopped thereafter. In 1998, some of Triton's members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to retronym, distinguish it from Windows Media Player (2022), the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11) is the first media player (application software), media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play sound reproduction, audio and video on personal computers. It has been a component of the Microsoft Windows operating system, including Windows 9x, Windows NT, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile. Microsoft also released editions of Windows Media Player for classic Mac OS, , and Solaris (operating system), Solaris, but has since discontinued them. In addition to being a media player, the app can Ripping, rip audio file from compact discs, burn Red Book (audio CD standard), Audio CDs or MP3 CDs, synchronize content with a digital audio player or mobile devices, and stream media over the local network. Originally, it could connect to a number of digital music stores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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IT (file Format)
Impulse Tracker is a multi-track music tracker (music sequencer). Originally released in 1995 by Jeffrey Lim as freeware with commercial extensions, it was one of the last tracker programs for the DOS platform. In 2014, on its 20th anniversary, Impulse Tracker became open-source software and the source code was released. History ''Impulse Tracker'' was authored by Jeffrey "Pulse" Lim for the DOS/x86- PC platform. ''Impulse Tracker'' was coded in assembly language, and the GUI was heavily influenced by that of '' Scream Tracker 3''. The first version was released in 1995 and included example songs "Drifting Onwards" and "Blue Flame" composed by Jeffrey Lim and Chris Jarvis respectively. The software was distributed as freeware, though extra features, such as support for stereo WAV output and a personalized version of the driver for co-editing songs over IPX networks, were provided for a fee. After the stereo WAV writer plugin was leaked publicly, Lim announced that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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S3M (file Format)
''S3M'' (Scream Tracker 3 Module) is a Module file, module file format, the successor to the STM format used by the original Scream Tracker. Both formats are based on the original MOD (file format), MOD format used on the Amiga computer. The S3M format has many differences compared to its predecessors. * The format is a hybrid of digital playback and synthesized instruments. The official format specification document covers space for 16 digital channels and 14 synthesized ones with two unused slots out of a total of 32. * Separate volume channel in pattern data. * Supports more instruments than MOD or STM (99 instead of 31). * Default panning of channels can be specified by the composer. * Extra-fine pitch slides are added * Instruments are not limited to a fixed sample rate for a given note. The format stores the instrument's sample rate at middle C. The period table used by S3M is smaller than the one used by the MOD format (only 12 entries, compared to between 36 and 60 for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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OpenMPT
OpenMPT is an open-source audio module tracker for Windows (with an intended Wine-functionality for UNIX and Linux x86-systems). It was previously called ModPlug Tracker, and was first released by Olivier Lapicque in September 1997. ''Computer Music'' magazine listed OpenMPT among the top five free music trackers in 2007, and it is one of the most widely used trackers. History MOD Plugin and ModPlug Tracker OpenMPT was initially developed as a browser plug-in called MOD Plugin, which enabled users to play music and other sounds encoded in module files. ModPlug Tracker, along with a player application named ModPlug Player, evolved from this plug-in. In December 1999, Olivier Lapicque sent the module-playing parts of ModPlug Tracker's source code to Kenton Varda, under the GPL-2.0-or-later, to write a plugin for XMMS based on the code. In 2001, the source code was released in the public domain, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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MusicBee
MusicBee is a freeware media player for playback and organization of audio files on Microsoft Windows, built using the audio library. Features * Audio playback: MP3, AAC, M4A, MPC, OGG, FLAC, ALAC, APE, Opus, , WavPack, WMA, WAV, MIDI, MOD, UMX, XM. * CDDA support: playback and ripping (CD-Text-capable) of audio CDs. Tracks can be ripped (in fast or secure mode), as individual files or as a single album with embedded cuesheet. * Synchronization: ability to sync content from local libraries with external devices (including iOS 3.0-based and earlier), and import libraries from iTunes and Windows Media Player. * File converter: single/batch file conversion from/to all supported audio formats, with original metadata preserved. In dealing with identical output files instances, provided that re-encoding is unnecessary, the process has optional instructions for selective skipping in favor of performing a tag-only synchronization. * Gapless playback: eliminates the timing rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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VLC Media Player
VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client) is a free and open-source software, free and open-source, software portability, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media Server (computing), server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android (operating system), Android, iOS and iPadOS. VLC is also available on digital distribution platforms such as Apple Inc., Apple's App Store (iOS), App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store (digital), Microsoft Store. VLC supports many data compression, audio- and video-compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, Video CD, and streaming-communications protocol, protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and can transcode multimedia files. The default distribution of VLC includes many free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The libavcodec library fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Foobar2000
foobar2000 (often abbreviated as fb2k or f2k) is a freeware audio player for Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, and formerly Windows Phone, developed by Peter Pawłowski. It has a modular design, which provides user flexibility in configuration and customization. Standard "skin" elements can be individually augmented or replaced with different dials and buttons, as well as visualizers such as waveform, oscilloscope, spectrum, spectrogram (waterfall), peak and smoothed VU meters, which all of them are analysis-oriented, at least for built-in visualizations. foobar2000 offers third-party user interface modifications through a software development kit (SDK). foobar2000 supports many audio file formats, has many features for organizing metadata, files, and folders, and has a converter interface for use with command line encoders. To maximize audio fidelity in cases where resampling or downscaling in bit depth is required, it provides noise shaping and dithering. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Xmplay
XMPlay is a freeware audio player for Windows. Initially released in 1998, it is often used as a reference player for tracker audio files. Overview Developed by ''Un4seen Developments'' in 1998, it originally only supported the XM file format of Fast Tracker II, from where the name "XMPlay" originates. XMPlay is able to handle many tracker file formats, as well as widely used music formats such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Opus, WAV, WMA, as well as many less common formats, through plug-ins found on the website. Plugins from the Winamp Winamp is a media player (software), media player for Microsoft Windows originally developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev by their company Nullsoft, which they later sold to AOL in 1999 for $80 million. It was then acquired by Rad ... audio player can also be used to extend XMPlay's capabilities. XMPlay is very powerful yet lightweight software: the whole package only takes up less than 360 KB. The software also offers typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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JetAudio
JetAudio is a shareware media player (application software), media player computer software, application for Microsoft Windows (operating system), Windows and Android (operating system), Android released in 1997 which offers playback options for a wide range of multimedia file formats. JetAudio is popular and well-rated for its interface, and its download count at CNET approaches 28 million downloads. JetAudio offers functions such as music and video playback, tag editor, metadata editing, compact disc, CD ripping and optical disc authoring, burning, data conversion, sound recording and reproduction, sound recording, and Internet radio broadcasting. It also includes numerous sound effects. The commercial “Plus VX” version of the application includes unlocked sound enhancement algorithms and a wide range of file format support, as well as the ability to transcoding, transcode more than 30 seconds of video files. Interface JetAudio’s graphical user interface, user interfac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |