survey: what do you use to play .it modules?

67509

schismtracker.org had a suite of "player abuse tests" that tests playback compatibility with impulse tracker, but most of those tests were administered back in 2009. in the interest of getting an up-to-date profile and knowing which players/libraries to prioritize for testing: what do you use to play .it modules?

edit: tally as of post #74287:

openmpt

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xmplay

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schism

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dumb

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modplug

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winamp

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milky

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renoise

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sackit

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timidity

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xmp

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67510

i just open them up in openmpt, i like seeing the things move

67511

Windows Movie Maker

67512

Okay for a more serious answer, openmpt

67514

OpenMPT

67517

openmpt too

67519

Audacious

67521

OpenMPT, DeliPlayer, MadTracker2

67524

openmpt and xmplay and sometimes schism or impulse tracker for fun : ))

67525

OpenMPT

67529

OpenMPT

67531

good news for all you openmpt users – the only notable playback bugs i'm aware of should be fixed in the next version.

edit: same goes for schism.

67536

OpenMPT as well

67538

OpenMPT

67541

I use the 1/5/12 build of Schism Tracker.

67542

What, no love for XMPlay?

67550

I convert it to an MP3, put it in the mp3 to midi converter, and then play it on synthesia. http://www.ofoct.com/audio-converter/convert-wav-or-mp3-ogg-aac-wma-to-midi.html
but really i use openMPT

67584

I use foobar2000, with an .it playback plugin, fight me.

67586

openmpt

67587

OpenMPT for direct listens, DUMB (fb2k plugin) for playlists

67591

xmplay and DUMB for fb2k

67594

sackit_play. Yes, I use my own software.

libmodplug can eat shit.

openmpt is probably good, I just don't use it.

67596

i use openmpt!

67599

OpenMPT and XMPlay

67600

XMplay

67612

luckily we don't have to retest dumb since it hasn't been updated in over a decade ;)

which is not to say that it's a bad library. better than libmodplug or *shudder* libmikmod

67613

Winamp

...it really whips the llama's ass!

67614

i frankly have no idea what library winamp uses by default, but iirc it's not an especially good one? cursory web searching didn't yield any useful information

67624

XMplay (DUMB or xmp-openmpt) with fuck ton of input plugins
wow look i can play almost all amiga/dos modules!
and many little known weird music files

or my trusty dosbox with fakereal inpulse tracker!!!!

67627

Hello people!
I use Timidity++ in both my Windows 7 64-bit machine and in my Ubuntu LTS14 32-bit machine

I feel lonely!

67628

i use oh pen emm pee tee

67642

Winamp.

67644

Schism or XMPlay.

67650

latest xmplay also passes all the player abuse tests

67661

xmplay. generally.

Though if the author does a recommendation on which player to use (eg strobe and his milkytracker compositions) I use what the author recomends.

67668

For reference:

winamp, timidity → mikmod forks
vlc, ffmpeg → libmodplug
schism, openmpt → so far diverged from libmodplug, notably because of the fact that these two aren't utter shit and libmodplug *is*, that they should not be lumped into the libmodplug category
foobar2000 → fairly heavily modified dumb fork
xmp → completely unrelated to xmplay, do not conflate these two

67669

xmplay better pass all the tests since it has claimed "balls on accuracy" for over 10 years

winamp playback is not perfect; has it's own interpreter; there were some hilarious bugs in early '00s versions -- especially when you start stacking internal pattern loops

67670

openmpt ftw, you get to see the notes and all that.

67671

xmplay 4lyf

[EDIT] occasionally Schism too, though generally just for my own tracks since that's what I use to compose things.

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"foobar2000 → fairly heavily modified dumb fork" —GreaseMonkey

ok, didn't know that. i had been lumping foobar2k in with dumb, but it sounds like they should be tested separately.

"xmplay better pass all the tests since it has claimed "balls on accuracy" for over 10 years" —Baron Knoxburry

it failed at least one of the tests last time around, but i'd guess that was about 7 years ago. also i never understood what "balls-on" was supposed to mean in terms of accuracy anyway

in any case these tests are by no means comprehensive; they just test some of the weird cases that sloppy playback libraries are likely to handle incorrectly. a good practice here (and in software development in general) would be to add a new test module to the suite every time we encounter a playback bug.

edit:

"winamp playback is not perfect; has it's own interpreter; there were some hilarious bugs in early '00s versions -- especially when you start stacking internal pattern loops" —Baron Knoxburry

yeah, tests 10 and 11
are devious in that respect.

67700

I am using linux machine mostly, so I use libxmp(with xmp-cli) and schismtracker.
and at dad's PC, openMPT yes

67736

OpenMPT/openmpt123 (CLI player) here, occasionally Schism

67741

Mainly renoise or winamp

67753

renoise! that is probably not a good idea

edit: before posting this i searched in the renoise forums etc to see what the general state of compatibility was. the threads were a few years dated but the consenus seemed to be that renoise was merely meant to load DOS module data correctly, and not to play it back in a compatible matter. also a couple of users suggested using milkytracker for IT playback instead lol

67766

Ah shit I forgot about audacious
audacious → libmodplug by default, but there is a plugin which lets it use dumb
xmms → libmikmod, there's a libmodplug plugin available though

@Chromaryu : libopenmpt works on Linux, you just have to build it: https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/

67786

Oh Thanks.

67802

openmpt

67810

oh, deadbeef while on linux, forgot. and partly audacious

67823

deadbeef → the same fork of dumb that foobar2000 uses I think - it's at least sometimes called dumb-kode54.

67894

xmplay and vlc

67945

xmplay for all formats it supports

67951

openmpt

67978

Xmplay... my preferred player for modules :)

67991

I use OpenMPT or MilkyTracker, depending on what I feel like using.

67998

+1 for schism

68105

openmpt

68174

schism!

68202

notepad

68206

XMplay for just plain listening

68288

schism tracker as well

68689

@iYamWhatIYam – milkytracker can sort-of load IT modules, but it certainly doesn't make any effort to replay them accurately. this is fine because milkytracker is an XM tracker, not an IT tracker. interchangeability between the formats seems to be a common misconception.

~~edit: audacious also uses libmodplug.~~ iamgreaser already pointed this out.

and there's finally a new release of schism: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker/releases

74274

XMPlay most of the times, sometimes OpenMPT or Foobar2000 with libmodplug as replay engine

74276

XMPlay if I'm passive listening; OpenMPT if I'm active listening.

74283

Open em up in OpenMPT

Open_eM_uPT

74287

Milkytra-what am I, stupid? I use Schism.