Level 99 Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Before I stop neglecting the MAGFest 2012 thread OP, I'm making a catch-all thread for listing available chiptunes playing software. There's a lot out there that people don't know about, so this may come in quite handy for lots of people: PC: Chipamp - A plugin bundle for use with Winamp, maintained right here on OCR! Free. Plays: 2SF, AY, DSF, GBS, GSF, HES, KSS, MDX, NSF, NSFE, PSF, PSF2, RSN, S98, SAP, SC68, SID, SPC, SSF, USF, VGM, WSR, YM, Streams (Many) Foobar2000 - A highly-customizable music player that has a ton of plugin support for numerous game sound formats. Those that don't have official support can usually be found via google search for plugins. Extremely useful feature: batch file format conversion (eg. SPC -> MP3 (VBR)) complete with MP3 batch tagging and filename formatting. Free. Plays: ADPCM (ADX, ADP, DSP), Adlib, MOD/MDZ, S3M/S3Z, STM/STZ, IT/ITZ, XM/XMZ, PTM/PTZ, MTM/MTZ, 669, PSM, UMX, AM/J2B, DSM, AMF, OKT/OKTA, MO3, AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, SAP, SGC, SPC, VGM, HVL, AHX, MID (supports soundfont mapping), RMI, PSF, QSF, SID, MUS, MDAT, USF, YM. Unoffocial support for 2SF, SSF, DSF, XA, etc. Edit: for foobar2000, make sure to just grab all of these plugins PC/OS X/Linux: Audio Overload - While it hasn't been updated in a while, this is the go-to player for people running either OS X or Linux. The interface is much more basic, and it's strangely missing some basic features (like volume control IIRC). However, it still supports a large number of formats and can export to WAV. Free. Plays: AHX, AY, COP, DSF, GBS, GSF, GYM, HES, HVL, IMF, various Apogee games, KSS, MDX, MOD, NSF, NSFE, ORC, PSF, PSF2, QSF, RAW, ROL, S3M, S98, SAP, SCI, SNDH, SPC, SPU, SSF, VGM, VTX, WSR, YM. iOS: Modizer - Mmm...This is delicious. Anyone who has an iOS device and wants to listen to video game music should absolutely get this application. Currently set at $2 in the appstore, it supports a ton of file formats. Killer feature: you can search and download songs and files from Modland and HVSC. Also can FTP files over. Source code for used libs available on the website. Plays: Over 400 formats, apparently. SIDPlayer - Dedicated SID Player. Has a built-in HVSC downloader. $2 Plays: SID stuff. Android: Droidsound - Not as many formats supported as Modizer, but still a damn solid application. Just updated to support GSF, PSF, and RSN. It can read zips so its a huge space saver when it comes to listening to lots of VGM. Also its free! Available on website or in Play store (Play store is most up-to-date at this time) Plays: MOD, SID, XM, SNDH, S3M, IT, NSF, VGM, VGZ, SPC, GBS, PSF, GSF, YM, etc. (they don't list them all but there's way more than just this) Rockbox - In-Progress port of the features that Rockbox firmwares offer. Free. Plays: See Rockbox below. MODo - Decent and competent basic chiptunes player. Free. Plays: MOD, XM, IT, S3M, MEG, SID, MUS, GBS, NSF, NSFE, SPC, GYM, VGZ, VGM, SAP, AY, YM. Older iPods (5.5gen and below), various other MP3 players: Rockbox - One of the few options for people who have dedicated MP3 hardware that isn't based on smartphone technology, Rockbox is a firmware replacement that opens up a large listing of devices to a host of new features. It really depends on the hardware itself, but Rockbox supports a few standard chiptunes formats along with FLAC and OGG. Free. Plays: SID, MOD, NSF, NSFE, SPC, MIDI, GBS (patch), HES (patch), SAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollgagh Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 for foobar2000, make sure to just grab all of these plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_chronic Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 Can someone revive this? The plug-in link is dead. Are there any better viable solutions in 2020? Thx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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