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How to find an Amiga music module?
First, try looking for your Amiga Music MOD at one of these MOD resource websites:
- http://www.exotica.org.uk - Music mainly from Amiga Games (MOD & Music in exotic formats)
- http://amp.dascene.net - Amiga Music Preservation (AMP), a non profit association, is running the biggest and most comprehensive database ever about Amiga music and Amiga musicians. All the composers of the Amiga deserve to be remembered and to have their work preserved.
- http://www.mirsoft.info/gamemods.php - World of Game Mods - N.B. registration is required to download files bigger than 500 KB
- http://www.modulez.org/ - Modulez is a music scene portal dedicated to all artists, news, articles and all related stuff.
- http://www.modarchive.org - Currently over 11 GB of MOD, S3M, XM, IT, MTM, 669 and STM files and growing rapidly.
- http://demodulate.scene.org - Demo music collection
- http://www.chiptune.com - The world of old school computers tunes
- http://www.scenemusic.net - Nectarine radio is a radio station broadcasting more than 18000 demo scene songs
- http://www.aminet.net/tree?path=mods - Aminet Mods
- http://mods.abime.net - a b î m e .net - Mods Jukebox
- fby amiga modules collection soundtracker/protracker modules divided by genre
Exotica has most if not all of what you need:
If you haven't found what you are looking for from above, try making a search on Google, always works. If nothing turns up, request it in Modules Requests Forum
How to play music modules?
Since they hold the mods mostly in their original, exotic formats, you will need Deliplayer to hear these tunes on your PC.
www.deliplayer.com (Recommended)
Alternative Players for Windows:
- XMPlay (Download from: http://www.un4seen.com/)
- Oldsk00l player plugin for XMPlay: http://support.xmplay.com/file_comment.php?id=42
- Also download these 3 input plugins by Sebastian Szczepaniak:
- XMP-DELIX is a plugin for XMPlay for playing music in many various (often exotic) Amiga formats (in very early stage of development) - from: http://support.xmplay.com/file_comment.php?id=499
- XMP-8SVX is a plugin for XMPlay for playing IFF/8SVX audio files - from: http://support.xmplay.com/file_comment.php?id=501
- XMP-SID is a plugin for XMPlay for playing Commodore 64 SID music - from: http://support.xmplay.com/file_comment.php?id=504
- Foobar (Dowload from: www.foobar2000.org).
- Modplug Tracker/Player (Dowload from: www.modplug.com)
- Winamp (Download from: www.winamp.com) N.B. Install a better mod engine e.g. Oldsk00l player
For Mac OS X, there's CocoModX, which will play SOME tunes (there's no decent Mac mod player :P)
http://cocomod.stalkingwolf.net
And for the miggy, you have Eagleplayer and Delitracker
http://www.unary.de/delitracker
Player for linux: XMMS
And there's also UADE [Unix amiga Delitracker Emulator]
How do I convert MODs to MP3/OGG/WAV
To convert tracker music modules to mp3/ogg/wav format you will need to use a program like winamp.
If you decide to use winamp’s Disk Writer Plugin to save the MOD as WAV then please make sure you have the Oldsk00l player plugin installed.
Download: Oldsk00l player for Winamp
Alternative methods include:
- Using XMPlay (Download from: www.un4seen.com/) and Lame/Oggenc - For more info and guide see: http://support.xmplay.com/article.php?id=36
- Using Foobar (Dowload from: www.foobar2000.org) and Vorbis encoder.
- Using Modplug Tracker/Player (Dowload from: www.modplug.com)
- You could use deliplayer but you only get mono output with the Stream Recorder plugin. To save the output in stereo you have to upgrade to DeliPlayer 2 Pro.