Supported and unsupported formats by UADE 0.70 - "there and back again":
Index:
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1. Players
1.1 What's supported
1.2 Players that were tested and don't work
1.2.1 Some reasons why a certain replayer is not working
1.2.2 Some reasons why a certain replayer plays some mods wrong:
1.3 Players or music formats not tested
1.4 Players currently in development
2. Naming and detecting the music files
3. Where to find the musics
1. Players
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What's supported
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Player Format Comment
- Art&Magic Art&Magic (AAM)
- BennDaglish Ben Daglish (BD)
- Custom Custom Modules (CUST) [many work, some still
crash uade, probs in
subsong detection]
- CustomMade Ron Klaren (RK/RKB)
- DSS Digital Sound Studio (DSS)
- DariusZendeh Darius Zendeh (DZ)
- Gluemon Gluemon (GLUE)
- SteveTurner Jason Page Old/SteveTurner(JPO)
- LME Legless Music (LME)
- MarkCooksey MarkCooksey Old (MCO)
- MarkII MarkII (MKII)
- PSA Professional Sound Artists (PSA)
- PaulShields Paul Shields (PS)
- SA-Packed SonicArranger (packed) [e.g. for Ambermoon
ingame music]
- SUNtronic SUNtronic (SUN)
- Soundmaster Soundmaster1+2 (SM/SM1/SM2)
- Soundcontrol Soundcontrol (SC) [cpu hog ;-), most
mods work]
- Soundfactory Soundfactory (PSF)
- TME The music enlightment (TME)
- TimFollin Tim Follin (TF)
- TinyWilliams Tiny Williams (TINY) [most mods work]
- YMPlayer Atari ST Music (YM) [only YMST supported,
no YM0! - YM5! songs.]
- fwmp Forgotten World player (FW)
- MMDC MED Packer (MMDC)
- PeterVerswyvelen Peter Verswyvelen (PVP)
- SpeedyA1System Speedy A1 System (SAS)
- SpeedySystem Speedy System (SS)
- TomyTracker Tomi Pakarinen player (SG)
- DaveLoweNew Dave Lowe New (DLN)
- TFMXPro THE final musics (MDAT+SMPL) *3 [1.5+PRO, but no 7V ]
- JasonPageNew Jason Page New (JPN)
- UniqueDevelopment Unique Development (UDS)
- MFP Magnetic Fields Packer (MFP)
- SynthPack SynthPack (OSP)
- SynthDream SynthDream (SDR)
- PaulRobotham Paul Robotham (dat+ssd)
- ThomasHerman Thomas Hermann (THM)
- Infogrames Infogrames/RobHubbard2(dum+ins) buggy replayer
- Novotrade Packer Novotrade Packer (NTP)
- InStereo2.0 InStereo 2.0 (IS20) (with songend)
- THX-Deliplayer AHX/THX0 replayer (AHX/THX) *3
- RichardJposephPlayer RichardJosephPlayer (sng+ins) [many times the 1st
Vectordean (RJP) subsong is empty,
change to subsong #1
to hear something]
- Instereo Instereo (IS) (with songend)
- Delta2.0 DeltaMusic 2.0 (DM2) (with songend)
- SIDmon2.0 SIDmon 2.0 (SID2) (with songend)
- iff-emod Quadracomposer (EMOD) (with songend)
- Synth Synthesis (SYN) (with songend)
- Hippel 7V Hippel 7 Voices (HIP7)
- ArtofNoise ArtofNoise (AON) [4 ch], (with songend)
- FC1.3 Futurecomposer 1.3 (FC13) *3, (with songend)
- FC1.4 Futurecomposer 1.4 (FC14) *3, (with songend)
- JamCracker JamCracker (JAM) (with songend)
- Soundmon Brian Postma's Soundmon (BP) *3,(with songend)
- Soundmon2.2 BP Soundmon 2.2 (BP3) *3,(with songend)
- SoundFX Soundfx 1.3 - 1.8 (SFX) (with songend)
- Tronic Tronic (TRONIC) (with songend)
- ImagesMusicSystem Images Music System (IMS) [XMP identifies them
as UNIC.3C]
- PTK-Prowiz Protracker, Noisetracker, (with songend +
Soundtracker (MOD) with subsongs),
and thanks to the prowizard *4
engine also some module packers.
(PP10, P61A,TP3...):
(for more info about what other formats this replayer handles
refer to the docs in: uade-docs/ptk-prowiz/ )
- Actionamics Actionamics (AST)
- Fred Fredmonitor (FRED) (with songend)
- Music-Ass Music Assembler (MA) (with songend)
- Hippel Hippel (HIP) (with songend)
- MajorTom2 Holynoise/MajorTom (HN/MTP2)
- LaxityPlayer Powertracker/Laxity-Player (PT)
- A.M.Composer1.2 AMComposer (AMC)
- Mugician Digital Mugician (DMU)
- PierreAdane Pierre Adane Packer (PAP)
- SIDmon1.0 SIDmon 1.0 (SID1) (with songend)
- Audiosculpture ADSC/Startrekker 4AM (ADSC/MOD) (with songend)
- M.O.N Maniacs of Noise (MON)
- FutureComposer BSI-Futurecomposer (BSI)
- Earache Earache aka Grouleff (EA)
- DeltaMusic DeltaMusic 1.0 (DM1)
- Hippel-COSO Hippel Coso (HIPC) (with songend)
- MartinWalker MartinWalker/ActivisonPro(MW/AVP)
- DavidWhittaker Whittaker (DW/DWOLD)
- SeanConnolly Sean Connolly (SCN)
- Silmarils Silmarils (MOK)
- Medley Medley (MSO) (with songend)
- BeathovenSynthesizer BeathovenSynthesizer (BSS)
- DaveLowe DaveLowe Old (DL) (WT adaption)
- DynamicSynthesizer DynamicSynthesizer (DNS)
- FredGray Fred Gray (GRAY)
- HowieDavies Howie Davies (HD)
- JasonBrooke J.C.Brooke (JCB/JCBO)
- MikeDavies MikeDavies/Tiertex Player (MD)
- RiffRaff Riff Raff (RIFF)
- RobHubbard Rob Hubbard (RH)
- RobHubbardOld Rob Hubbard (RHO)
- SeanConran Sean Conran (SCR)
- SOPROL Sound Programm. Lang. (SPL)
- KrisHatlelid Kris Hatlelid (KH) (no KHs with seperate
song and replay data)
News and replacements:
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- Oktalyzer Oktalyzer (OKT)
- SonicArranger Sonic Arranger (SA/SONIC)
- DigitalMugician2 DMU2 Files (DMU2)
- PaulSummers PaulSummers (SNK)
- PumaTracker Pumatracker (PUMA)
Following players are known to work but are not included anymore.
You can obtain them and some others on Exotica for example.
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- Amos Amos Music bank (ABK)
- AProsys Aprosys (APS)
- DIGIbooster DIGIBooster (DB) *3
- VSS Voodoo Supreme (VSS)
1.2 Players that were tested and don't work:
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- FTM FTM works, but very bad
audio qual, atm :(
- TFMX_7V The final Musics 7v works but timing
problems.
- S7C Hippel 7V Coso [no replayer]
- JesperOlsen JesperOlsen [player crashes]
- MarkCookseyNew MarkcookseyNew [player crashes]
- MaxTrax Maxtrax [player uses audio.dev,
crashes]
- MED MED/Octamed [player crashes]
- Pokey Atari 800 Music [player crashes]
- ml Music Line [player crashes]
- musicmaker Musicmaker [player crashes]
- stone Stonetracker [noteplayer]
- mm4/8 Music maker [player crashes]
- poly Polytracker [player crashes]
- cust-sun Suntronic Custom [player crashes]
- mtm,669,xm,it,etc. PC tracker formats *4
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{*1 - (no issue anymore :)
{*2 - see "Players currently in development"}
{*3 - there's also a native unix player/xmms plugin for this format.
{*4 - Some words about the term "MOD", since on PC it's used for all
kind of tracker music now, it seems.
Even if you refer to it as modfile, if it ain't a "MOD.*" or "*.MOD",
it ain't be played. (No, renaming ITs or XMs won't do ;)
Since uade is emulating an Amiga, it's mainly thought to play AMIGA
MOD file formats like Soundtracker, Noisetracker and Protracker
and it's packed relatives. (4ch, weighted stereo, 8 bit samples).
A really good replayer for the pc tracker formats is e.g. XMP
1.2.1 Some reasons why a certain replayer is not working:
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A bug in uade (after all uade is still experimental software;)
A bug in the replayer or it uses a yet unsupported feature of the
amiga delitracker(DT)/eagleplayer (EP).
The player uses the DT's noteplayer or EP's amplifier interface.
You try to play the wrong file with the wrong player. E.g. YM0! instead of
YMST files with MYST.
Although it's both an atari st music fileformat and that has even the same
pref/ext, the fileformat is completely different.
1.2.2 Some reasons why a certain replayer plays some mods wrong:
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A bug in uade :)
The replay routine might be not the newest, bug-fixed one. Many of the older
replays didn't support all the effects/features that might be needed for
tunes that were written for a later replay. (e.g. sfx1.3 <-> sfx1.8)
1.3 Players or Music formats that I couldn't test:
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Basically anything that's not in the list of supported or unsupported
formats. E.g.
Dmdl No mods to test with
ems6 no official replayer
gdm no replayer
1.4 Players currently in development:
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(for more info on that read the docs in:
contrib/players-unstable/ptk-prowiz/readme.first/ :)
ArtofNoise 8:
In the contrib dir you will find an AON 8 voices replayer (uade needs to be
put in 68020 mode in your "uaerc" config file for the latter) which is
based on the replays found in the sources to the Art Of Noise 1.9 Editor by
Bastian Spiegel (Twice/Lego)
Soundmon 2.0 with pseudo subsong support:
(nothing worth to be released yet)
The AON8 replayer and a uadeformats file with the neccessary filetypes can be
found in contrib/players-unstable/ of the uade source tree.
2. Naming and detection of the music files:
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Filenames:
Because uade is very much an emulator and the replayers are actually
written for the amiga, uade behaves in many aspects like the good old AMI.
So, to avoid troubles it is a good idea to stick to the file naming as it
is done on the amiga. With exceptions this means, the replayers normally
expect a prefix instead of the three letter extensions, which are so popular
on Wintel machines.
E.g. TFMX song names from the Amiga:
MDAT.Turrican1-Title + SMPL.Turrican1-Title
The combination some windows replayers use *.tfx + *.sam will not work.
(thank god;)
Filetypedetection in xmms plugin:
from uade 0.40 on, the xmms plugin is now also able to detect _some_ filetypes
by it's contents rather then relying on the Prefix/Extension of the filename.
Be aware it slows down adding files to the playlist of xmms( especially if
you also enable to detect the format of crunched music files.)
It's not anyway near of being complete, and will be updated with new
formats slowly but surely. You can enable/disable this feature in the
configuration of the xmms plugin. (disabled by default)
Music formats that profit very much from this filetype detection are currently
TFMX1.5 and Startrekker Mod file using either Sample or AM instruments. If
one of those formats is detected the right replayer is set automatically,
instead of trying to play it with the default replayer set for the extension.
Formats that can currently be detected by contents by the xmms plugin:
TFMX1.5 + Pro, Musicassembler, Art of Noise, AHX/THX 0, Actionamics,
Audio Arts & Magic, Futurecomposer 1.3 + 1.4 + BSI, LegLess, Hippel +
Hippel-Coso, Jamcracker, Soundmon 2.0 + 2.2, SoundFX, Deltamusic 1.0 + 2.0,
SidMon1.0 +2.0, RonKlaren, MYST, Oktalyzer, Mark2, Vectordean, Fred
Pro and Noisetracker, Startrekker MODs, Startrekker 4am + Audiosculpture,
Custom, etc.
3. Where to find the musics:
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The best case would be you already have them still lingering on your HD back
from your Amiga days or rip it from your favourite demo/game all by
yourself.:)
Otherwise look at:
Exotica and UnExotica, both on: http://exotica.fix.no
for people that look for musics, background info and so on, Exotica is
really the best for looking for a certain song. A huge site related to
amiga music. (info: files packed with lha)
Wanted Team homepage: http://amiga.emucamp.com/wt/wt.html
beside all the neat replayers of Wanted Team, you can also find
example song files and a lot of custom.modules
(info: some files are packed with lzx. You can use "unlzx" for depacking
them. The sources of an unlzx can be found both on Aminet or HAM (see below))
HAM: (Hacked Amiga Music) http://hjem.get2net.dk/ham/
a site dedicated to "open rips", beside the songs you get info how the
rip was done. (info: you also sometimes need unlzx to dearchive the songs,
the source to an unlzx can be found under "miscellaneous")
Rudolf Stember's Homepage: http://www.stember.com
you can find all the music Rudolf Stember composed for Amiga games in
the TFMX format officially on his webpage. (Das Schwarze Auge, Hanse,
Patrizier,Mad TV, BC Kid, etc)
Note: most files are in Windows notation. You have to change *.mdat, *.smpl
to the usual Amiga naming mdat.*, smpl.* before being able to play the
files with uade.
AMI Sector One: http://amiga.emucamp.com/
http://amiga.emucamp.com/m_game.htm
nice selection of some game tunes in all sorts of formats
http://amiga.emucamp.com/m_scene.htm
nice selection of some scene music in all sorts of formats
Chiptune.com: http://www.chiptune.com
a site mainly about "chippy" music.
Aminet: http://aminet.net
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