Request for tracker plugin

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Sam_Zen
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Request for tracker plugin

Post by *Sam_Zen »

It would be very nice to have a Lister plugin that can handle so-called tracker-module files, like .XM or .MOD.

(This filetype is extremely efficient for audio-transmission, but very underestimated. Unlike WAV or MP3, its
filesize doesn't relate to the duration of the song, only to the total of instrument-samples plus the score-tables.
A track of 6 minutes could easily be 500 Kb, instead of the 6Mb of an MP3 - and no compression involved.)
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Post by *icfu »

I haven't tried it, see for yourself if it fits:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/wisetracker.html

Alternatively there is AmpView:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/ampview.html

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Post by *CoMiKe »

Do you want a tracker inside TC? Or do you want to play tracker files on TC?

In the first case, I think it makes no sense in a filemanager. I would recommend you to try ScaleTracker.
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Post by *Sam_Zen »

2Icfu :
I tried Wisetracker already a while ago and it crashed on my system.
During this reply I installed Ampview. It started with some errormessage about a wrong address and a second one about the lacking of DirectX ver 8, but after that with an 'ok', both MOD and XM were played properly.
~ In the meantime I implied DirectX 9 and the interlude is gone now. Still it is rather primitive, a lot more information could be easily derived from the files. ~

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Of course not as part of filemanager. It's playing back media, so F3 is the appropiate key for this.
I just checked the ScaleTracker site and, although I am a fervent user of ModPlug throughout the years, I must say, this looks impressive. I will check this out in detail.

My preference would be a 'dedicated' plugin for these tracker-formats. I stopped programming myself, but I still can recognize the potentials in a format. Plus the fact that I know, that the syntax and the source-code of this is available on the net.
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