Subject: soundtracker 15 instrument changes

From: mld
Date: Wed Nov 23 13:48:59 2005

To: UADE-Developer-discussion
Hi all,

some might have noticed in the current cvs, that I started to do some work concerning
Soundtracker and derivates... Plans are to improve mod support in UADE a bit.

These changes might have broken some files that played fine before (please report :) ), others now  hopefully get played better (please report, too ;) )

for anyone interested, here's some of the changes:

[list:4198001003]In amifilemagic various checks on mod and mod15 are done to detect the actual type of the file... (basically an extended version of the PTK-Prowiz checks ported to c). So far 10 different mod  and 4 different mod15 derivates are checked for.

An invalid module length is now treated much stricter now by amifilemagic. So far this might have no effect, because uade still can fallback on the file prefix or suffix and then it's basically the replayer, which has the last word if it gets played or not...

Also work on some of the eagleplayers playing those files is in it's early stages. As a longterm goal, detection code has to be rewritten (backport from amifilemagic) and the replayers will be restructured to share e.g detection code and other functions between each other.

So far detection code of the replayers Ultimate-ST and Master-ST just includes a strict check for module length (and a check if we run under UADE as a safety measure), so it's pretty dumb atm, beware.
FYI: If you have a bad rip of an UST or MST mod15 you will be able to  override with e.g.:
uade123 mod.amegas --ignore[/list:u:4198001003]

Further plans:
[list]a replayer to support Soundtracker v2-v4 files has to be written.
And a basic playtime calculation for the detection could be useful too.[\list]

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From: asle
Date: Sun Nov 27 10:16:51 2005

To: UADE-Developer-discussion
[quote:22f2bfc8ed="mld"]
[list:22f2bfc8ed]a replayer to support Soundtracker v2-v4 files has to be written.
And a basic playtime calculation for the detection could be useful too.[/list:u:22f2bfc8ed][/quote:22f2bfc8ed]
you mean Tip SoundTracker or is it another ?.

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From: mld/uade team
Date: Mon Nov 28 11:43:40 2005

To: UADE-Developer-discussion
good question... I mean those 15 instruments Soundtracker mods using effects like 4,5,6,7,8 and so on...