OpenMPT

OpenMPT is an open-source music tracker for Windows. It is based on ModPlug Tracker by Olivier Lapicque, first released in September 1997¹. Although developed for Windows, OpenMPT can be run on Unix-like systems via Wine. Computer Music magazine listed OpenMPT among the top five free music trackers in 2007, and it is one of the most widely used trackers.

OpenMPT is an open-source music tracker for Windows. It is based on ModPlug Tracker by Olivier Lapicque, first released in September 1997. Although developed for Windows, OpenMPT can be run on Unix-like systems via Wine. Computer Music magazine listed OpenMPT among the top five free music trackers in 2007, and it is one of the most widely used trackers.

History

MPTM file format

Due to limitations of the various module formats it is able to save, a new module format called MPTM was created in 2007. OpenMPT introduced some non-standard additions to the older file formats. For example, one can use stereo samples to XM modules and add VST plugins to XM and IT modules, which were not supported in the original trackers. Many of these features have gradually been removed from IT and XM files and made available only in MPTM files.

libopenmpt

libopenmpt is a cross-platform module playing library based on the OpenMPT code with interfaces for C, C++ and other programming languages. To ensure that the code bases do not diverge like in the case of ModPlug Tracker and libmodplug, libopenmpt development takes place in the same code repository as OpenMPT. Official input plug-ins for popular audio players (XMPlay, Winamp and foobar2000) based on libopenmpt are also available from the website. FFmpeg also offers an optional module decoder based on libopenmpt. libopenmpt can also serve as a drop-in replacement for libmodplug and thus offer up-to-date module playback capabilities for software that relies on the libmodplug API.

Reception and users

Nicolay of the Grammy-nominated The Foreign Exchange has revealed that ModPlug is his "secret weapon". Movie and video game music composer Raphaël Gesqua made known his use of OpenMPT in an interview. Peter Hajba and Alexander Brandon used OpenMPT to compose the soundtracks for Bejeweled 2, Bejeweled 3 and other PopCap games. Electronic rock musician Blue Stahli has mentioned that he used ModPlug Tracker and other trackers in the past. Finnish developer Hempuli used OpenMPT to create the soundtrack of Baba Is You. The project files were released for free online.

References

External links

ModPlug ModPlug XMMS Plugin (using libmodplug)

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