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                E x t e n d e d   M o d u l e   P l a y e r

                              Version 1.1.4

This is the Extended Module Player, a tracked module player for Unix. xmp plays several module formats including XM, S3M and MOD. See the INSTALL file for instructions for building and installing xmp.

The latest version is available at http://puma.inf.ufpr.br/~claudio/xmp. Please send bug reports to claudio@pos.inf.ufpr.br. Patches, comments and suggestions are welcome.

The current version recognizes the following module formats:

xm (Fast Tracker II), mod (Noise/Fast/Protracker), s3m (Scream Tracker 3), stm (Scream Tracker 2), mtm (Multitracker), ptm (Poly Tracker), okt (Oktalyzer), far (Farandole Composer), wow (Mod's Grave), amd (Amusic Adlib Tracker), rad (Reality Adlib Tracker), 669 (Composer 669), alm (Aley's modules), mod (Soundtracker 15 instruments)

See docs/formats.txt for details about the supported formats. Currently supported output devices are the OSS sequencer (for the Gravis Ultrasound and AWE32 cards or SoftOSS) and the software mixer (for OSS, Sun audio or to mix to a file). The OSS sequencer can be used to play FM modules in a OPL2 FM synthesizer (Adlib card for PCs). Experimental support for HP-UX on HP9000/700 is available in this package.

The software mixer included in the xmp package allows xmp to play through the /dev/audio device or mix directly to a file. The output is 8 or 16 bit, signed or unsigned linear samples, mono or stereo, interpolated or not. Software mixing usually requires a lot of CPU power.

Other features: support for gzip/compress/zip/lha/bzip compressed modules (zip and lha must be single file archives); random order playing; support for 4 bit ADPCM encoded samples (used in MDZ files); interactive commands to skip and return patterns and modules; channel muting.

C o m m a n d s

The following single key commands can be used during the playback. Click on the volume bars in xxmp to mute channels.

                'q'             =>      quit the player
                'f'             =>      jump to next pattern
                'b'             =>      jump to previous pattern
                'n'             =>      jump to next module
                'p'             =>      jump to previous module
                SPACE           =>      pause
                '1' to '8'      =>      mute channels 1 to 8
                '!' to '*'      =>      unmute channels 1 to 8

The '!' to '*' keys are supposed to be SHIFT + '1' to '8'. That's true in a standard US keyboard, but may be a clumsy choice of keys in a foreign keyboard with the symbols placed in different keys. My keyboard has the following layout, let me know if yours is different:

                          !  @  #  $  %  ^  &  *
                          1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8

L i c e n s e

                           Extended Module Player

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

                        ADPCM encoder and decoder
          Copyright (C) 1992 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum
            Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All Rights Reserved.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of Stichting Mathematisch Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.

STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s

We would like to thank the following people that directly or indirectly contributed to make xmp a better product:

Felix Brandt, Gustav Grefberg, Fredrik Huss and Magnus Hogdahl, Hannu Savolainen, Andrew G. Robinson, Daniel Marks and David Jeske, Carlos Hasan, Toru Egashira, Elisa Nascimento, Dieferson Araujo, Takashi Iwai, Antti Huovilainen, Michael Janson, Sergio Mori, Priit Jarv, Matthias Leonhardt, Kilian Hekhuis, Jaroslav Kysela, Aley Keptr, Arnaud Hasenfratz, Marcelo Malheiros, Russel Marks, Davi Lima, Bernardo Innocenti, Robinson Mioshi, Eric Bouquerel and all xmp users in the world.

To Ronny Nordeide, Jogeir Liljedahl, Skaven, Purple Motion, Gustaf "Lizardking" Grefberg, Elwood, Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen, Kenny Chou, Bjorn "Dr. Awesome" Lynne, Chorus & Sid, Mick Rippon, Fabio Barzagli, Jester, Leviathan, Necros, Moby, Ryan Cramer, Soundmaster, The Zapper!, Chrylian, Jeronen Tel, Erik Stridell and all those we forgot to mention, our thanks for the hundreds of hours of the most enjoyable music that made our debugging sessions a real pleasure.

Claudio Matsuoka
Hipolito Carraro Jr
Wed Jan 28 20:09:56 EDT 1998