2017-01-04 ---------- A cleanup operation is ongoing, where bad characters get removed from filenames, suffixes are corrected and misplaced modules get moved to their correct folders. A few Protracker 3.6 modules were deleted since they had counterparts in Protracker. The Protracker 3.6 folder should have been named Protracker IFF instead, since IFF saving is a (rarely used) option of Protracker 3.6 and later. But keeping them in this format has no value in itself. As long as a module is available in a format supported by the original tracker, there is no point in keeping it in all other supported formats as well. In any such situation the most compatible and playable format will take precedence. Maniacs Of Noise Old was removed. It was identical to Jeroen Tel. The folders were merged and cleaned up. How did this happen? All these years... 2017-01-03 ---------- New format: Startrekker (.mod). The confusion continues. Until now, Modland had only a Startrekker AM folder, as the first Startrekker had no synth sound support and created "general Protracker clone" modules (FLT4) with no accompanying .mod.nt file (which I suppose contains synth sound data). Those are still mixed up with the rest of their clone friends in the Protracker folder. But Startrekker could also create 8-channel modules (FLT8), where the only one present on Modland so far has been residing in the Fasttracker folder. But whereas FLT4 modules (not AM ones) are readily playable by a Protracker player, FLT8 modules are incompatible with Fasttracker, so putting it there was a bad idea from the start. The single lonely FLT8 module has therefore moved to its own format folder. 2016-12-23 ---------- It was the day before christmas (at least in Sweden), and suddenly all the Spectrum formats got organized into a new folder called Spectrum, while losing their "Spectrum" prefix. Maybe not the best solution, but now it's at least consistent with Ad Lib and its subformats, and the formats get to have their real names. As a bonus the script that updates the welcome message got updated so it no longer counts all Ad Lib formats as one. The number of all formats, Ad Lib and Spectrum included, is now 373. 2016-07-30 ---------- New format: Soundtracker (.mod). Yes, since the very beginning, Soundtracker - meaning the old 15-sample variant from Soundtracker v2.2 and earlier - has been one of the formats represented in the Protracker folder, among several others. I have seen the Protracker folder as a catch-all for Soundtracker and all derivatives from it, as long as they didn't stray into multichannel. From now on 15-sample Soundtracker modules will reside in their own folder. The reason is that this format is very different from the 31-sample format that from ST v2.3 became the standard for years to come, many players don't support it, and these relics from the ancient world of 1987-88 deserve their own format folder after all these years. The Protracker folder will still contain a mixed bunch of formats, but now they could be described as "all 4-channel formats with a 4-byte signature at position 1080". Protracker being the most common of these, it will continue giving its name to the folder. 31-sample modules which are resaved 15-sample originals will stay in the Protracker folder until the original can be acquired, at which time the converted copy will be deleted. This goes for all other formats as well. Note that this change will take place during an extended time. It will be done step by step while going through everything in the Protracker folder, fixing errors as they are found, more or less manually (hopefully less). 2016-07-29 ---------- A few formats that originally used .mod as their suffix have for many years been named differently on Modland. I somehow felt it necessary to separate these Soundtracker derived formats not only through the different folders, but also through the suffixes. Now all modules of these formats have been renamed back to .mod as they should have been named from the beginning: Fasttracker (previously .ft) Octalyser (previously .oct) Soundtracker 2.6 (previously .st26) 2016-06-27 ---------- Today I welcome Menace/Spaceballs as Modland's third admin! I'm sure that with his support, new releases (from compos and such) will reach Modland a lot faster than today. Welcome aboard Glenn! 2016-06-16 ---------- The Ad Lib format Pixel Painters was found to actually contain two different formats, and has been split up into Pixel Painters FMF/FTF. Another Ad Lib format, RdosPlay RAW, has been renamed to Raw OPL Capture. 2016-06-14 ---------- Some further attempts to sort out some Ad Lib confusion. The following formats have been renamed: JCH-D00 -> EdLib D00 JCH-D01 -> EdLib D01 EdLib -> EdLib Packed All these are from the EdLib tracker, made by JCH. Modules of the packed format (.edl) will only be included when the original module (D00 or D01) cannot be found. Deleted a bunch of modules which were present both as original and packed. 2016-06-03 ---------- New format: Westwood SND (.snd). A format created by Westwood to support PC speaker music in some of their adventure games. 2016-05-31 ---------- A couple of changes among the Ad Lib formats: Boom Tracker 4.0 lost its unnecessary version number and is now called just Boom Tracker. Screamtracker 3 was renamed to Screamtracker 3 AdLib for technical reasons. The different Herad Music System folders were consolidated into a single one. In this case the different suffixes do not designate different formats, but different Ad Lib-supporting devices. 2016-05-02 ---------- The upload folder has been removed for good, due to the fact that we never got the permissions working as we wanted after moving to the Linux world. It is also a fact that the actual need for an upload folder has diminished greatly during the 15 years Modland has been online. Anyone who wants to contribute now has any number of methods to choose from. A public Dropbox link is just one example of many. Or just mail us the files if they aren't too large. 2015-06-05 ---------- The SoundFX 2 and MultiMedia Sound folders have been joined into one under the name of MultiMedia Sound. Some faulty and duplicated modules were deleted. As far as module science can tell, there is no detectable difference between these formats. Both are names of trackers that used the same format, and MMS was the latest version. 2014-03-05 ---------- The Renoise folders were getting out of hand with all those versions and have been reorganized. Renoise modules are now only separated into Renoise Old (the older format, .rns) and Renoise (the current xml-based format, .xrns). 2014-03-04 ---------- New format: Piston Collage Protected (.pttune). Not really a new format as it has been mixed up with Piston Collage since it was added in 2006. Today I thought it was time to make an effort to disentangle the mess within this folder. It contained .ptcop files (the default format), .pttune files (the protected, uneditable format now broken out to its own folder), .org files (Organya and Organya 2, Pixel's older formats which have their own folders) and two strange .pmd files which I have moved to the laboratory for further study (they are not of the format called PMD). 2014-03-03 ---------- There is now a torrent of the contents of Modland (as it was on february 27th of this year)! There was another one years ago, but this one is "official" and will be seeded by me from now on: ftp://ftp.modland.com/modland_2014-02-27.torrent This should be more convenient than FTP for those who want to download everything. It's not seeded from the server, so it will be rather slow until it's picked up by others with faster connections. You are very welcome to help out with the seeding if you have 49 GB you don't need and some bandwidth to spare. Also feel free to publish the torrent on various file sharing sites. New torrents will follow when enough changes have been made. 2014-02-09 ---------- I learned that bzip2, which was used to compress the allmods and hash lists, isn't universally supported, so I changed to the default compression (deflate). If you have had problems opening these files, it should work better now. 2014-02-05 ---------- New format: CustomMade (.cm). This was mixed up with Delitracker Custom and Ron Klaren. As far as current module science can tell, this was the original format of Ron Klaren's music in games like Battle Squadron. The format named after him is a later EaglePlayer adaptation. New formats: Digital Tracker DTM (.dtm) and Digital Tracker MOD (.mod), both replacing DigitalTracker. This is an Atari Falcon tracker where the older versions created a Protracker based format (FA04/06/08) which is usually not playable by Protracker replayers (as far as I have found). The last(?) version, 1.9, had modules of a new format, most of which have until now been misidentified as DigiTrekker, a wholly unrelated DOS tracker. The upload area has now been fixed once and for all (hopefully), so feel free to contribute if you have anything that should be in the collection. The changelog is now properly sorted and contains changes from the documents and software areas as well as modules. 2014-02-01 ---------- Finally we have changelogs again, and better than before since the script to generate them now use checksums. We couldn't do that before, it was just too slow. This makes the script...
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