XMPlay 2.6 | ||||
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 my favourite MP3-MOD-S3M-IT-XM-OGG player, superb audio quality due to spline interpolation and sensitive ramping, MMX accelerated mixing, includes a WAV writer device (optional 32-bit floating-point) MP3 shoutcast streams: it's the only player I know which writes separate(!) tracks to disk, allowing a lossless copy of streamed MP3's to HD, file by file Winamp input plugin support, intergrated support for WAV, WMA, MP3, OGG, MO3 (MP3/OGG compressed MODs, MOD, MTM, S3M, XM (incl. MIDI out!), IT (incl. filters), UMX (Unreal music) does streaming of OGG, WAV, WMA, MP3, MP2, MP1 from FTP / HTTP / Shoutcast / Icecast servers (right mouseclick the open- or add-button) MOD pattern display visualisation  (press the little "i") allows to play songs from within ZIP and RAR archives there's another interesting thing at the authors page: XM-EXE is a handy XM to EXE converter/player, yep, it attaches the XM to a nice win9x playback program, even collections of XMs (into one EXE) Sonique visual plugin support, Winamp input plugin support, integrated reverb + pseudo surround + 5 band equalizer: adjustable gain at five frequency bands audio CODEC support - writes compressed WAVs, MP3s ... whatever if you need a great sound library for your game or demo be sure to check out BASS, it's free for use in freeware projects, incl. the new BASS WMA, an extension to playback WMA files, includes API's for C/C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, MASM and TMT Pascal Ian opened up a forum, including a board for bass and one for xmplay MO3 Encoder 1.4 released, MO3 compresses your MOD/XM by encoding the samples either by mp3, ogg or zip-like lossless compression (decompressed back to the original by UNMO3 NEW: 32/24-bit playback NEW: customizable title formatting NEW: track queuing NEW: multi-track selection | ||||
Sonique 1.96 | ||||
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| freeware, very stylish all-in-one player, URL streaming support plays MPG, MP2, MP3 as well as MOD, XM, IT, S3M (through MikIT engine) + WAV + CD-Audio comes with it's own unique application design, fusing a highly stylized aesthetic with a fluid windowless interface, visual plug-in support offers several very nice visualization plugins diskwriting to .wav files NEW: changed registration process NEW: added russian help files NEW: fixed broken images in readme files | ||||
WinAMP 3.0 | ||||
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| freeware, the mother of all MP3-and-all-in-one players, now plays video formats as well included is a MID- and a MOD/XM/IT-player (still far away from being a recommended module-player!) as well as a CD player (plugin) support Windows Media Technology 4.0 (WMT4) input/output supports "skins": there are loads of those eyecatchers at http://www.winamp.com loads all kind of playlists (*.m3u, *.pls, selecting multiple MP3's in the open dialog ...), supports ID3 tag supports HTTP streaming + MPEG 2.5, drag'n'drop, shuffle, repeat, volume + panning slider, progress indicator, fast forward/rewind supports output plug-ins with DirectSound support (lets you mix multiple mp3s at once!) optional realtime 8 band EQ + spectrum analyzer HTML playlist generator (so you can print your playlists) -- Playlist->Misc Opts->Generate HTML Playlist you should check out the WinAmp Plugin Page for a complete list of the available plugin's incl. ratings SidAmp 1.4beta - the C64 SID-file player plugin NEW: support for all common video formats NEW: Guru Meditations are back NEW: check the new features in detail | ||||
DeliPlayer 1.30 | ||||
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& Peter Kunath | ||||
| the Amiga legend enters PC: DeliPlayer re-defines the term "multiformat-player", it's freeware, plays more than 190(!) formats supported formats include MP3, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, C64-SID and of course all DeliTracker Amiga custom modules supports all common playlist formats supports all common generic archivers (ZIP/RAR/LHA/LZX) as well as special packers (PowerPacker 2.0, XPK NONE/NUKE/DUKE/SQSH/RDCN/SHSC/SASC, MMCMP) available mixer algorithms include linear and quadratic interpolation, optionally dithering and click removal supports skins, visual plugins, 10 band equalizer, audio effects (reverb, widen stereo, stereo join) everything is client-server based, all clients are flexible, enter the config and you'll see what I mean NEW: support for Images Music System, PolkaRunner, SGT-Packer, TomiPakarinen, TreasurePatterns NEW: 'diGitalsyStem2444' skin for 'D-Operator' layout | ||||
YAMP 3.3 | ||||
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| Yet Another Music Player (midas based for the MOD types) the player worlds first player which introduced loadable and editable designs from classic to weird, be sure to check out those additional designs at AKA's page supports CDs, WAV (incl. compressed), MID, RMI, MOD, S3M, XM, (IT), MPEG audio (MPEG-1 Layer I, II, III and MPEG-2 LSF), AVI supports CDDB database repeat function for songs and playlists, shuffle mode, possible ways to create playlists: command line or drag'n'drop - both works with songs, play lists and (recursive) folders support for Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), an example program is included NEW: support for multiple CD-ROM drives NEW: new and better file extension icons NEW: faster startup, speed improvement and fixes NEW: new example song "Another Morning" | ||||
OpenCubicPlayer 2.60pre6 | ||||
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| the #1 DOS player (freeware), supports SID, MP2, MP3, MDL, PTM, DMF, 669, WOW, ULT, S3M, MTM, MOD, NST, OKT, XM, IT, MID, AMS, CD-Audio, WAV supports DISK (WAV-File, use the HIGH QUALITY MIXING DEVICE!), GUS/DB, GUSMAX, SB (PRO,16), AWE32, WSS, PAS, EWS64 (wss port), ESS688, silence included are KB's great SID files from the fucking damn unbelievable groovy Smash Designs C64 version(!) of SECOND REALITY which won the C64 demo compo at TP97 (if you don't have C64 try CCS64 on your PeeCee) plays MIDI's even with plain SB - grab my 4-disc GUS patch set, search for the last disk via FTP-Search and you should find the first 3 discs in these locations too WÜRFEL MODE II (finally 320x200 ;), here's "Würfel Animator Professional" by Felix Domke (tmbinc) to generate your OWN Würfel Mode Animations GUS Mem Multiplier 8x, supports 2 GUSes in 2D and 3D mode!, RAR, ZIP, LHA, ACE & ARJ support .M3U, .PLS and MikIT .PLT play list support echo/reverb effects (ECHO MENU), 1024*768 graphical spectrum analyser like KB's SID tunes? then watch 2nd Reality C64 version and be amazed! for all newskool-, non-SB-, non-GUS, non-EWS-, non-WSS-people out there using Win9x: devpVXD, the DirectSound server to support *every* DirectX soundcard (similiar to the VSOUND-driver for IT) NEW: now *really* should work with DirectX | ||||
K-Jöfol 2000.b2 | ||||
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| nice freeware MP3 and VQF player (incl. MPEG 2.5 support) which uses the mpg123 engine, same speed as WinAmp and XTC entirely customizable with resources files Winamp visualisation plug-ins support streaming HTTP support (Ctrl+L) NEW: moved to "allround players" subsection since it uses BASS.DLL for MOD XM IT S3M support NEW: AVP false alarms on some DLLs now fixed NEW: VQF plugin is back, now displays the artist and track name from the VQF header NEW: fixed crash at Kjofol exit occuring on NT4 | ||||
Pulse Player 0.96 | ||||
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| nice freeware player, supports loadable user designs (some call it skins...) plays lot's of module formats (as usual ... more or less perfect): 669 FAR M15 WOW NST MOD XM IT STM S3M FNK MTM MED ULT MDL PM SAP (Atari XL/XE music format) AMF FC3/4 (Amiga chip-tunes) plays MP1/2/3 via FreeAmp engine, C64 SID's via SidPlay library integrated ACM support (ADPCM, MP3 ... whatever codecs you have installed) AHX player, subsongs in SID/AHX supported 4 audio streams mixer, playing e.g. up to 4 MP3s at once, new design 'out of colours' supports 4 mixers fully customizable visual components (analyzer, osci) NEW: Development kits for Pulse released! | ||||
VUPlayer 1.0 | ||||
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| freeware MP3 + OGG + trackersong player, using XMplay's BASS library supports MOD, S3M, XM, IT, MP3, OGG, WAV and .m3u playlists doesn't allow to control the ramping options, yet NEW: windows media audio playback included NEW: ogg vorbis support has been updated to RC3 NEW: support for Windows XP visual styles NEW: added full system tray functionality NEW: included a new 'add folder' function to scan for music files NEW: added MP2 file format support NEW: some new volume ramping options for MOD/S3M/XM/IT files | ||||
WinJey 1.01 | ||||
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(Andreas Mautsch) | ||||
| win9x/NT freeware, formerly "XTC for windows", plays VOC, WAV, MP2, MP3, MOD, S3M, XM, IT (no filter support) for the newbies of you: XTC Play for DOS 0.97c is also available, it supports SB, GUS, iNTERWAVE, diskwriter and plays MPEG I,II Layer 1,2,3 / IT / MOD / S3M / XM / MTM / PTM / 669 / MDL / DSM / FAR / STM / VOC / WAV, has nice graphical output versions: tunnel, FFT analyzer, osci, magic circle ..., has archive support (RAR, ARJ, ZIP) supports WINAMP plugins, YAMP designs directly and WINAMP skins indirectly via AKA's "WinAMP Skin to Yamp design" converter NEW: changes to MPG decoding engine, no bubbles or cracks in bad MP3's nor crashes on invalid MP3's anymore NEW: MIDI plugin NEW: faster startup, more stability (found some deadlock bugs and integrated thread locks) NEW: new faster graphics engine, Yamp .designs now perfectly supported | ||||