I haven't messed with MOD players in quite a
while, but what players are popular now?
I used ModMaster back in the day, it had
the cool random box and line type screensaver
effect, but it was certainly limited.

C Snyder

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For the Amgia I think there is Deliplayer and Eagleplay both available off of Aminet.

If you wanted PC then Winamp is the best I have used.

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I find Hippoplayer to be the best MOD player on the Amiga, but with so many modplayers out there I'm sure many will object and claim a different player to be better. I suggest you at least try it and then decide (personaly like the huge fomat support it offers and the nice optional scopes). For editing is there anything to compete with good old ProTracker?

For PC there's not much that can beat the good old WinAmp when it comes to just playing but as an alternative I would like to mention MODPlug Player and Tracker which show more MOD info and offers editing aswell as supporting a few more formats.

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by Brian on 27-Jul-2003 11:17:45 I find Hippoplayer to be the best MOD player on the Amiga, but with so many modplayers out there I'm sure many will object and claim a different player to be better. I suggest you at least try it and then decide (personaly like the huge fomat support it offers and the nice optional scopes). For editing is there anything to compete with good old ProTracker? For PC there's not much that can beat the good old WinAmp when it comes to just playing but as an alternative I would like to mention MODPlug Player and Tracker which show more MOD info and offers editing aswell as supporting a few more formats.

I like Hippoplayer myself too. For the PC however there are much better players than WinAMP For example, DeliPlayer which is made by the same guys that brough DeliTracker to the miggy, and as such it supports the same formats even delving into LHA + LZX archives to play archived tunes.

As for Editing on the Amiga, yes there is...even though PT3.62 is my tracker of choice, I do use extensively OSS too, and DigiBooster 2.2x has many more features over PT. Also both OSS and DB are more system friendly and will happily run on an RTG system, which PT will not on account it bangs on the display hardware to open its screen.

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I use Eagleplayer 2 and Hippoplayer my self but I like Eagleplayer 2 better as it suports more sound formats than Hippoplayer.

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Its hard for me to not say EdPlayer if you're into older MODs using native screenmodes.

Someone needs to make an update!!!

I used to use a combination of both HippoPlayer and Eagleplayer because there were various mods that one of them wouldnt play for some reason but the other one did.. they are both very good players although i am 99% sure that development has ceased on both of these terrific applications now even fishing out old versions from aminet i am certain they will do the job

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X-Caliber wrote: Its hard for me to not say EdPlayer if you're into older MODs using native screenmodes. Someone needs to make an update!!!

yes i agree there arent many/if any at all mod players still in development, or any new ones being made that i know of

Really speaking, there is not much call to update the mod players for the Amiga. No new modu formats have appeared on the Amiga in a long time, and those on the PC are generally XM/mod variants, which already have support for playback with an Amiga.

Most (if not all) the tracker players/multo format players open on the WB screen, so work fine on gfx card RTG systems, and some support AHI playback, so support soundcards that have AHI drivers (or paula emulation if used on UAE/Amithalon). We have skinnable players (like Eagleplayer) or bog standard purely functional gadtools GUI ones.

In terms of Editors, then we could do with some updates. Of the many we have, only two or 3 are really used often (Digibooster, Protracker, OctaMed SoundStudio) , and of those only 1 is really being developed much (Digibooster) - OSS was being updated, but Kato Devleopments took too long and the source was given to another person. So far no further news on that has been released. PT is the only non RTG friendly one, and would require some serious editing to fix that - not to mention its source is entirely in 68K assembler (found on aminet).

Even Tracker development on the PC is slow too, if you take the timeframe between releases of Sk@le tracker and ReNoise. They do have the advantage of some nice VST plugin effects though, plus the availability of good soundcard systems with full GM midi support.

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and the mp3 seems to have taken over on all formats

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staticman wrote: and the mp3 seems to have taken over on all formats

And WAV.

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Wav?! lol nah

Wav has been around since the early days of Microsofts windows. It is uncompressed data, much like AIFF and MAUD, both of which were very commonly used formats on the Macs (and to some degree AIFF/AIFC are still commonly used today for mono/stereo recordings)

Wav was to the PC as IFF is to Amiga. MP3 and OGG are more commonly used nowdays for final distributions of songs solely because the original as a WAV/AIFF/AIFC/MAUD/IFF would be HUGE (for wav @ 44100Hz 16bits you'd be looking at approximately 10MB per min of audio)

You'd only really be downloading a wav if it were used as a sound sample for an instument, not as a format for the song in its entirety.

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bigsnyder wrote: I haven't messed with MOD players in quite a while, but what players are popular now? I used ModMaster back in the day, it had the cool random box and line type screensaver effect, but it was certainly limited. C Snyder

Ok, ModMaster doesn't work with OS4.1. Which of the other players work best with it?

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Ok, ModMaster doesn't work with OS4.1. Which of the other players work best with it?

Native OS4 players (like SimplePlay, TuneNet etc.) aren´t suitable for your MOD collection?

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For AOS4.x on my SAM460 I use AmigaAMP (v3.7) works fine for mods(except .med). There are a few ones on os4depot: tkplayer, Proplayer, Simpleplay ,...)

Tunenet works fine too for mods/mp3/...

HippoPlayer on my A1200 and DAPlayer on AmigaOS 4.1.

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And what Amiga system have you?, if you use AmigaOS4 there are two options, DiamonPlayer 100% only for mods, and AmigaAMP the lastest version and some other bizarre program as V.A.M.P.
under OS3 the same programs well and the V.A.M.P. version for OS3 but with the problem that all Hollywood softwares needs the graphic card.

For A1200 I recommend Hippoplayer as it crashes my machine 20x less than Eagleplayer or Deliplayer.

For Windoze I recommend Deliplayer because it has a working repeat play feature (sort of) and BZRplayer which does not have any repeat play but it can play various mods that Deliplayer can't.

I have never used a mod player on OS4, MorphOS, AROS, MacOS, #?Linux#?, iOS, Android, PS3, Xbox360 or Wii.


For making mods I use Octamed Sound Studio on A1200.

Hippoplayer FTW!

Mp3?!? Bagh! Flac FTW!

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