Extended Module Player

$ xmp m5v-nwlf.itz
Extended Module Player 4.0.11
Copyright (C) 1996-2016 Claudio Matsuoka and Hipolito Carraro Jr
Using ALSA PCM audio
Mixer set to 44100 Hz, 16bit, cubic spline interpolated stereo
Press 'h' for help

Loading m5v-nwlf.itz... (1 of 1)
Module name  : My New Life
Module type  : Impulse Tracker 2.12 IT 2.00
Module length: 35 patterns
Patterns     : 28
Instruments  : 57
Samples      : 86
Channels     : 18 [ 0 f 3 b 8 1 5 8 a b 0 f 3 d 9 c 5 8 ]
Duration     : 3min32s
Speed[04] BPM[87] Pos[05/22] Pat[0A/1B] Row[4D/7F] Chn[0F/11]      0:00:25.6 

The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player. Xmp plays many mainstream and obscure module formats including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM), and Impulse Tracker (IT).

Starting at release 4.0 xmp will be split into two different packages, a library and a player application. This version has many improvements over the 3.5 player, including extensive code refactoring, improved IT support, better sound quality, more built-in decompressors and many bugfixes.

The Library

The current stable version is 4.6.0 (released June 15 2023).

• libxmp 4.6.0 (changelog)
• Libxmp API reference (also available as a PDF file)
• Examples

Git development repository available at:

• https://github.com/libxmp/libxmp.git
• git://git.code.sf.net/p/xmp/libxmp.git

The Player

• xmp 4.2.0 (changelog)

Git development repository available at:

• https://github.com/libxmp/xmp-cli.git
• git://git.code.sf.net/p/xmp/xmp-cli.git

Related projects

• Xmdp, a clone of the Future Crew MusicDisk Player using Libxmp and SDL2.
• Xmp for Android uses libxmp built with the Android NDK.
• Experimental Python bindings for libxmp. This is a work in progress and the API is still a bit unstable.
• WebXmp is an experimental JavaScript/HTML5 version of xmp written by Juergen Wothke.
• Chiptune.js is a javascript mod player that uses libxmp compiled with emscripten.

Supported formats

Modules

Compressors

Tracker gallery

Screenshots

These are screenshots of different programs used to create, play or manipulate tracker music. Some of them are quite obscure.

• Amiga trackers: Digibooster 1.7, Icetracker 1.1, MED V1.12, MED V2.00, MED V3.00, OctaMED V2.00, OctaMED Professional (V4.00), Protracker 2.3d, Protracker 3.15, Protracker 3.61, Quadra Composer 2.1, Soundtracker 2.6, Startrekker 1.3
• PC trackers: Digistudio 1.5, Digitrakker 3.2, Fast Tracker II 2.09, Imago Orpheus 1.00, Impulse Tracker 2.14, Liquid Tracker 1.00, Poly Tracker, Real Tracker 2.01, Scream Tracker 2.2, Scream Tracker 3.21, TakeTracker, Ultratracker 1.6, Whacker Tracker 1.00, X-Tracker 1.03
• Atari trackers: Flextrax 0.9, Graoumf Tracker, Megatracker 0.96, TCB Tracker, TCB Tracker 2.0s, Octalyser (more trackers at DHS)
• Amiga players and utilities: ProWizard 2.20, Noiseconverter 1.53, Xmodule 3.4

Music

• MED V2.00 demo song by Teijo Kinnunen, 1990. "'Song' is my own composition. It may sound much like SLL's songs. I know that, because I actually emulated the style of SLL."
• Ode to Protracker by Asle, 1995. "Well, this STANDARD protracker MOD is meant only to fsck players and trackers around. (...) If you want to code a replayer or/and if you've already coded one, then this MOD is also for you :)"
• Fourth Symmetriad by Skaven, 1998. "This song demonstrates the use of filter envelopes (and NNAs, and other envelopes) in Impulse Tracker. (...) As this song relies heavily on filters, it will probably sound somewhat stale without them."
• Lepeltheme by Mark Wright, 1992. The Sonic Solutions version of Karsten Obarski's Lepeltheme from Sarcophaser using OctaMED synth instruments (played with xmp 2.4.0-pre3, may contain errors).

Resources

• ftp.modland.com
• Fading Twilight (Atari music)
• Arcade BBS page 1, page2 (Acorn music)
• Amiga Music Preservation
• Aminet
• Wanted Team example modules, other rips
• GS modules
• UnExoticA Amiga game music archive by format
• Tracker History Graphing Project