Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:08 this Thursday (GMT):

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:11 this Wednesday (GMT):

ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
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Do any of you still listen to MIDIs? I do once in a while: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/music/music.html
That includes MOD, S3M, XM, IT, 669, FAR, etc. ;)

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I think it's been over 20 years, I had an HD issue but my mod collection
survived. Didn't get around to copying it off the failing drive as I
hadn't listened to the songs much.
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Well, I did replay Crusader: No Remorse recently. That was all Necros
mods as I recall. Lizardking was a favorite too, that much I remember.

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Nope, I don't think I've ever had one. I tried converting one before but
it turns out its kinda hard.

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It was fairly easy to convert MODs in WinAmp (remember WinAmp?*) You'd
queue up a tracker file (WinAmp had fairly robust support for most
formats), and then go into WinAmp 'plugins' and select the WaveOut
Output.***. The file would stream to a WAV file of the music which you
could then convert to FLAC or MP3 or whatver you wanted.
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It's how I got all my favorite MODs into my MP3 collection so I could
listen to them on the go (there are actually tracker players for
mobile devices, but it was just simpler to make them all MP3s than to
juggle different players).
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I meant making a new MIDI file from mp3/wav/etc
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Honestly, WinAmp can do that too (I mean, so can a lot of other apps,
but since I was hyping WinAmp before, might as well continue to do
so). It can do that with pretty much /any/ file it can play; it just
redirects the output to a WAV file instead of, you know, to your
speakers.

Of course, the QUALITY of that music file will be heavily dependent on
whatever it is you use for MIDI playback. If you've got some sort of
high-end Yamaha XG50 soft-synth, it'll sound terrific. If you've
somehow managed to wedge a Soundblaster v1.0 with an OPL2 soundchip
into your modern laptop, it'll sound a lot less good (still, kudos for
getting an ISA soundcard into a 2024 laptop; that's some dark magic
right there and well worth the ear-bleed ;-)

The Roland Emulator (MuNT) also has a direct MIDI-to-WAV output
feature, if you want to (mostly) recapture what a MIDI file would
sound like to a PC gamer with high-end gear in 1989 ;-)