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by qxb
23/01/2010 - 23:46
Forum: General Conversation
Topic: Meta Exotica
Replies: 10
Views: 8890

Re: Meta Exotica

I've started a codeplex project and started working on support for the mod format first. There are still many details to flesh out and many formats to support but at least I have documentation for the mod format and it is still a large milestone given how many mods exist. In unison with a metadata h...
by qxb
17/01/2010 - 12:23
Forum: General Conversation
Topic: Meta Exotica
Replies: 10
Views: 8890

Re: Meta Exotica

Hmm, I don't know of any open source code (MikMod, ModPlug, etc.) that can import AON or ML modules... what player do you use to even play them? Well you can use an Amiga emulator or you can use Deliplayer. There is a PC port. As there are not very many known ML modules in existence that particular...
by qxb
16/01/2010 - 23:15
Forum: General Conversation
Topic: Meta Exotica
Replies: 10
Views: 8890

Re: Meta Exotica

Novel idea, certainly. You could poke thru the source code to libmikmod for parsing tracker files, it's hard to come across the specifications for those old formats but I remember finding some on textfiles.com's Programming->Formats section . The HVSC already has a metadata collection, the STIL . I...
by qxb
16/01/2010 - 18:03
Forum: General Conversation
Topic: Meta Exotica
Replies: 10
Views: 8890

Meta Exotica

I've been looking into frameworks for extracting metadata from oldschool formats. Most notably perhaps mod, xm, s3m, it, etc. Not to mention sid of course. And all the others: ml, aon, bla, bla, etc. Basically I want to create a permanent index of all metadata of all files on my system: in particula...