jesolo wrote:Winamp (with the correct plugins) supports all of these formats. […]
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Winamp (with the correct plugins) supports all of these formats.
A nice MOD type player for Windows is Mod4win 2.40b (I've used it since the 90's on my retro PC's), but it is a bit more resource intensive than an equivalent DOS based player. It even has direct support for GF1 and OPL4 based (like the Audiotrix Pro) sound cards that has onboard RAM.
A nice DOS based MOD player (that supports most of the different formats) is Inertia Player.
I'm sure the other users on Vogons can suggest more players.
Don't play tracker files with Winamp. For the love of all that's good, just don't do it. I can't *believe* people still do this or recommend it to others in 2016.
Same with Mod4Win - it was never a "good" player back in the day and the replay routines for the formats it handles (does M4W even support ITs? I don't think so...) are completely out of date and much better options exist. (The only valid reason to use it IMO is the direct hardware support, but again there are better options.)
For DOS I use (Open) Cubic Player, whatever the last DOS version was (2.6.0 beta it seems.) It's not 100% accurate and has a few bugs, but it plays a ton of formats mostly very well and has so many playback & visualization options it's not funny. It will even play mp3s, but has trouble with more modern encodings. It supports hardware mixing on GUS, AWE, OPL4, etc.
Fun fact: since OCP went open source it got ported & shows up in the repos for most Linux distributions and even MacOSX so you can run it on those too. It's a great program.
Of course you can always go back to the native tracker (IT, FT2, etc) for perfect replay.
For Windows far and away the best player for any tracker format (& mp3, wav, flac, etc.) is XMplay, and yes, it will even run on w98. HEAPS more accurate replay than Winamp (or VLC, or anything based on the old libmodplug for that matter), and actively developed with better format support being added all the time. You can add the libopenmpt plugin to handle the odd format it doesn't cover.
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