XMP, Extended Module Player open source (GNU GPL) portable module player for Unix or Win32.

Extended Module Player open source (GNU GPL) portable module player for Unix or Win32.

The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player for Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX and MacOS X, and also QNX, BeOS, Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Xmp plays over 80 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC. There are experimental plugins for Audacious, Beep Media Player, XMMS and Winamp.

The Extended Module Player, or xmp, is a portable command-line module player for Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX and MacOS X, and also QNX, BeOS, Windows, OS/2 and AmigaOS. Xmp plays over 80 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs and PC. There are experimental plugins for Audacious, Beep Media Player, XMMS and Winamp.

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Stable release

The current stable version is 2.7.1 (released Jul 18 2009). New versions are announced at Freshmeat (subscribe to be notified of new releases).

• xmp 2.7.1 (20090718) (release notes and changelog)
• xmp 2.7.0 (20090711) (release notes and changelog)
• xmp 2.6.2 (20090630) (release notes and changelog)
• xmp 2.6.1 (20090627) (release notes and changelog)
• xmp 2.6.0 (20090625) (release notes and changelog)
• xmp 2.5.1 (20071207) (release notes and changelog)
• xmp 2.5.0 (20071127) (release notes and changelog)

Supported formats
Current xmp supports the following module formats and variations:

XM (Fast Tracker II), MOD (Noise/Fast/Protracker), FLT (Startrekker/Audio Sculpture), ST (Soundtracker), IT (Impulse Tracker), S3M (Scream Tracker 3), STM (Scream Tracker 2), STX (STMIK 0.2), MTM (Multitracker), MTN (Soundtracker 2.6/Ice Tracker), IMF (Imago Orpheus), PTM (Poly Tracker), MDL (Digitrakker), ULT (Ultra Tracker), LIQ (Liquid Tracker), NO (Liquid Tracker (old)), MASI (Epic Megagames MASI), PSM (Protracker Studio), AMF (DSMI (DMP)), GDM (Generic Digital Music), MMD0/1 (MED 2.10/OctaMED), MMD2/3 (OctaMED v5/OctaMED SS), MED3 (MED 2.00), MED4 (MED 2.10), DMF (X-Tracker), RTM (Real Tracker), PT3 (Protracker 3), TCB (TCB Tracker), DTM (Digital Tracker), GTK (Graoumf Tracker), DTT (Desktop Tracker), MGT (Megatracker), MUSX (Archimedes Tracker), DSYM (Digital Symphony), DIGI (DIGI Booster), DBM (DigiBooster Pro), EMOD (Quadra Composer), OKT (Oktalyzer), SFX (SoundFX), FAR (Farandole Composer), UMX (Epic Games Unreal/UT), STIM (Slamtilt), MTP (Soundsmith/MegaTracker), IMS (Images Music System), 669 (Composer 669), FNK (Funktracker), AMD (Amusic Adlib Tracker), RAD (Reality Adlib Tracker), HSC (HSC-Tracker), ALM (Aley Keptr), AC1D (AC1D Packer), FCHS (Fuchs Tracker), FCM (FC-M Packer), FUZZ (Fuzzac Packer), KRIS (ChipTracker), KSM (Kefrens Sound Machine), MP (Module Protector), P18A (Promizer 1.8a), P10C (Promizer 1.0c), PRU1 (Prorunner 1.0), PRU2 (Prorunner 2.0), PHA (Pha Packer), WN (Wanton Packer), UNIC (UNIC Tracker), TP3 (Tracker Packer v3), XANN (XANN Packer), MP (Module Protector noID), DI (Digital Illusions), EU (Eureka Packer), P4x (The Player 4.x), PP21 (ProPacker 2.1), P50A (The Player 5.0a), P60A (The Player 6.0a), NP2 (Noisepacker v2), NP1 (NoisePacker v1), NP3 (Noisepacker v3), ZEN (Zen Packer), UNIC (UNIC Tracker id0), UNIC (UNIC Tracker noid), UNIC2 (Unic Tracker 2), CRB (Heatseeker 1.0), TDD (The Dark Demon), STP (Startrakker Packer), GMC (Game Music Creator) [84 known formats]

Some of the formats are still in early development and shouldn't play very accurately (unstable formats include Graoumf Tracker GTK and X-Tracker DMF). Let me know if any of these formats is important for you.

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