Supported and unsupported formats by UADE 0.73: Index: ------ 1. Players 1.1 News, replacements and fixes: What's supported Players not included 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 1.5 Where to find new replayers and how to make uade use them: 2. Filenames and detecting the music files 3. Where to find the musics 1. Players ---------- News, replacements and fixes (see changelog): --------------------------------------------- - AHX *3 AHX_v2 replayer (AHX/THX) (songend) - BladePacker BladePacker (UDS) (songend) - Suntronic Custom Suntronic Custom (*, instr/*) [Play it as real custom] - PTK-Prowiz Protracker, Noisetracker, (songend + Sound/Noise/Protracker (MOD) subsongs), *4 and thanks to the prowizard engine also some module packers. (PP10, P61A,TP3...): - Soundmaster Soundmaster1+2 (SM/SM1/SM2) (songend) - Soundcontrol Soundcontrol (SC) (songend) - SoundImages aka Tiny Williams (TW,TINY) (songend) - Janko Mrsic Flogel Janko Mrsec Flogel (JMF) (songend) - Steve Barrett Steve Barrett (SB) (songend) - Wally Beben Wally Beben/Ariston (WB) (songend) - MED/OctaMED MMD0,MMD1,MMD2 (songend), no MMD3 yet What's also supported ---------------------- Player Format Comment - Custom Custom Modules (CUST) [many work, some still crash uade, probs in subsong detection] - TFMX_*_(TFHD) one file TFMX music (not recomm.) - DSS Digital Sound Studio (DSS) (songend) - DIGIBooster *3 DIGIBooster (DB,DIGI) (no DB-Pro) - TFMX_Pro *3 The final musics (MDAT+SMPL) (songend) - TFMX_7V *3 The final Musics 7v (-"-) (songend) - MugicianII Digital Mugician Files (MUG2) (songend) - Infogrames Infogrames/RobHubbard2(dum+ins) - JasonPage Jason Page New (JPN) (songend) - DariusZendeh Darius Zendeh (DZ) - SUNtronic SUNtronic (SUN) (songend) - Art&Magic Art&Magic (AAM) (songend) - BennDaglish Ben Daglish (BD) (songend) - CustomMade Ron Klaren (RK/RKB) - Gluemon Gluemon (GLUE) (songend) - SteveTurner Jason Page Old/SteveTurner(JPO) (songend) - LME Legless Music (LME) (songend) - MarkII MarkII (MKII, MK2) (songend) - PSA Professional Sound Artists (PSA) - SA-Packed SonicArranger (packed) [e.g. for Ambermoon ingame music] - Soundfactory Soundfactory (PSF) (songend) - TimFollin Tim Follin (TF) - YMPlayer Atari ST Music (YM) [only YMST supported, no YM0! - YM5! songs.] - fwmp Forgotten World player (FW) - MMDC MED Packer (MMDC) (songend) - PeterVerswyvelen Peter Verswyvelen (PVP) (songend) - SpeedyA1System Speedy A1 System (SAS) (songend) - SpeedySystem Speedy System (SS) (songend) - TomyTracker Tomi Pakarinen player (SG) (songend) - DaveLoweNew Dave Lowe New (DLN) (songend) - MFP Magnetic Fields Packer (MFP) (songend) - SynthPack SynthPack (OSP) (songend) - SynthDream SynthDream (SDR) (songend) - PaulRobotham Paul Robotham (dat+ssd) (songend) - ThomasHerman Thomas Hermann (THM) (songend) - Novotrade Packer Novotrade Packer (NTP) (songend) - InStereo2.0 InStereo 2.0 (IS20) (songend) - RichardJposephPlayer RichardJosephPlayer (RJP) (songend) aka Vectordean (*.sng) - Instereo Instereo (IS) (songend) - Delta2.0 DeltaMusic 2.0 (DM2) (songend) - SIDmon2.0 SIDmon 2.0 (SID2) (songend) - iff-emod Quadracomposer (EMOD) (songend) - Synth Synthesis (SYN) (songend) - Hippel 7V Hippel 7 Voices (HIP7) - ArtofNoise ArtofNoise (AON) [4 ch], (songend) - FC1.3 *3 Futurecomposer 1.3 (FC13) (songend) - FC1.4 *3 Futurecomposer 1.4 (FC14) (songend) - JamCracker JamCracker (JAM) (songend) - Soundmon *3 Brian Postma's Soundmon (BP) (songend) - Soundmon2.2 *3 BP Soundmon 2.2 (BP3) (songend) - SoundFX Soundfx 1.3 - 1.8 (SFX) (songend) - Tronic Tronic (TRONIC) (songend) - ImagesMusicSystem Images Music System (IMS) (songend) - Actionamics Actionamics (AST) (songend) - Fred Fredmonitor (FRED) (songend) - Music-Ass Music Assembler (MA) (songend) - Hippel Hippel (HIP) (songend) - MajorTom2 Holynoise/MajorTom (HN/MTP2) (songend) - LaxityPlayer Powertracker/Laxity-Player (PT) - A.M.Composer1.2 AMComposer (AMC) (songend) - Mugician Digital Mugician (MUG) (songend) - PierreAdane Pierre Adane Packer (PAP) (songend) - SIDmon1.0 SIDmon 1.0 (SID1) (songend) - Audiosculpture ADSC/Startrekker 4AM (ADSC/MOD) (songend) - M.O.N Maniacs of Noise (MON) - FutureComposer BSI-Futurecomposer (BSI) (songend) - Earache Earache aka Grouleff (EA) (songend) - DeltaMusic DeltaMusic 1.0 (DM1) - Hippel-COSO Hippel Coso (HIPC) (songend) - MartinWalker MartinWalker/ActivisonPro(MW/AVP) (songend) - DavidWhittaker Whittaker (DW/DWOLD) (songend) - SeanConnolly Sean Connolly (SCN) (songend) - Silmarils Silmarils (MOK) (songend) - Medley Medley (MSO) (songend) - BeathovenSynthesizer BeathovenSynthesizer (BSS) (songend) - DaveLowe DaveLowe Old (DL) (songend) - DynamicSynthesizer DynamicSynthesizer (DNS) (songend) - FredGray Fred Gray (GRAY) (songend) - HowieDavies Howie Davies (HD) (songend for some songs) - JasonBrooke J.C.Brooke (JCB/JCBO) (songend) - MikeDavies MikeDavies/Tiertex Player (MD) (songend) - RiffRaff Riff Raff (RIFF) (songend) - RobHubbard Rob Hubbard (RH) (songend) - RobHubbardOld Rob Hubbard (RHO) (songend) - SeanConran Sean Conran (SCR) (songend) - SOPROL Sound Programm. Lang. (SPL) buggy, (songend) - KrisHatlelid Kris Hatlelid (KH) (songend) (no KHs with seperate song and replay data) - Oktalyzer Oktalyzer (OKT) (songend) - SonicArranger Sonic Arranger (SA/SONIC) (songend) - PaulSummers PaulSummers (SNK) (songend for some songs) - PumaTracker Pumatracker (PUMA) - PaulShields Paul Shields (PS) (songend) - TME The music enlightment (TME) (songend) - TFMX *3 The final musics (MDAT+SMPL) (songend) - MarkCookseyOld MarkCooksey Old (MCO) - MarkCooksey MarkCooksey (MC) (songend) - SpecialFX SpecialFX (JD) (songend for some songs) - Desire Desire Player (DSR) (songend for some songs) Following players are known to work but are not included anymore. You can obtain them and some others on Exotica or Aminet for example. --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Amos Amos Music bank (ABK) - AProsys Aprosys (APS) - VSS Voodoo Supreme Sythesizer (VSS) - SAP Atari 800 XL Music (SAP) well, kind of ;) - FTM Face the Music (FTM) works, but very bad audio qual, atm :( 1.2 Players that were tested and don't work: --------------------------------------------- - S7C Hippel 7V Coso [no replayer] - S*C Hippel-ST [noteplayer] - JesperOlsen JesperOlsen [player crashes] - MaxTrax Maxtrax [no audio.dev, crashes] - MED MED/Octamed [player crashes] - Pokey Atari 800 Music [player crashes] - ml Music Line [player crashes] - stone Stonetracker [noteplayer] - mm4/8 Music maker [player crashes] - poly Polytracker [player crashes] - mtm,669,xm,it,etc. PC tracker formats *4 - DIGIbooster Pro DIGIBooster (DB Pro) [no ahi.device] -- {*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: --------------------------------------------------------- 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: ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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: -------------------------------------------------- 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: ------------------------------------- ArtofNoise 8: player for Art of Noise 8 voices music files (AON8). see contrib/players-unstable/README/README.ArtOfNoise8 of the uade source tree for more infos. Soundmon 2.0 with pseudo subsong support: (nothing worth to be released yet) UltimateST: player for the 15 samples great_grandfather of all mod formats. see contrib/players-unstable/README/README.UltimateST of the uade source tree for further infos 1.5 Where to find new replayers and how to make uade use them: -------------------------------------------------------------- To find new, not included or bugfixed replayers you have two good points to start looking: Exotica: http://exotica.fix.no On Exotica you'll find mostly replayers for delitracker but afaik you can also use some of them with uade, too. Wanted team Page: http://amiga.emucamp.com/wt/wt.html Don Adan/Wanted Team is still pretty busy in implementing *new* and excellent replayers for all sorts of formats for the Amiga Eagleplayer. Most of their Eagleplayer work fine with UADE and are already included with uade. If you look for new or bugfixed replayers have a look there. Here's an example how to add support for a currently unsupported format: - download (and depack if neccessary) the replayer (e.g. Amos) - put it into the $HOME/.xmms/uade/players/ - edit your $HOME/.xmms/uade/players/uadeformats (or use the xmms plugins formatseditor): Edit uadeformats as followed: [...] ym YMPlayer zen PTK-Prowiz endformats ...add a new line between the last format and the endformats tag: The line consists of the fileextension of the format, a tab, and the filename of the replayer. [...] ym YMPlayer zen PTK-Prowiz abk Amos endformats ...now uade should be able to play ABK files. 2. Filenames and detection of the music files: ---------------------------------------------- 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 TFMX and Startrekker Mod files 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 e.g. be detected by contents by the xmms plugin: TFMX1.5 + V7, 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: ---------------------------- 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 maintained by Buzz/Iris. (info: files packed with lha) Wanted Team homepage: http://amiga.emucamp.com/wt/wt.html beside all the nice replayers of Wanted Team, you can also find example song files and a lot of custom.modules. (A BIG thanks to Don Adan, without his eagleplayers uade wouldn't be able to play a lot of formats, it supports now. Great work!) HAM: (Hacked Amiga Music) http://hjem.get2net.dk/ham/ a site dedicated to "open rips", beside the songs you get infos 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") BAD: (Backstage of Amiga Demos) http://alse.free.fr/groups/groups.html a site about very cool old Amiga Demogroups, maintained by Sylvain 'Asle' Chipaux. Asle asked me to point out that the site is currently in its early stages of development, but it is definetely already worth a look for all nostalgic people. Abyss' AHX page: http://amigascne.org/ahx/ Home of AHX - Abyss' Highest eXperience musicformat. Among the actual editor (in case you like to compose yourself ahx tunes with UAE:), the links to Abyss Members pages (worth a look too!) you can also download a lot of AHX tunes as a huge lha/zip archive. 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. Tim Wright's Homepage: http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/ on his homepage Tim Wright hosts officially some of his game musics (such as Shadow of the Beast 2 and 3, Agony) as mod files and also available are some mp3 remixes. Modland: ftp:/ftp.modland.com - very nice collection of music in all sorts of exotic amiga formats. 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. Digibooster Community: http://www.highantdev2.de/dbpro/index.php Community of Digibooster (Pro) Users in German and English. Aminet: http://aminet.net _the_ Archive. Take yourself some time look inside the mods/* sections... (info: if 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))