Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

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?*)

Remember?  I used it today.

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.

Did this for several sounds effects and files back in the day.

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).

* I bet Pepperidge Farms remembers.**
** Remember Pepperidge Farms' "Pepperidge Farms remembers" advertising
campaign? No. Me neither.

Only the South Park spoofing with the "memba berries"

*** No, I didn't have this memorized. I do have WinAmp on an old PC
though, so I could easily check ;-)

I still use it, it's low impact, plays in the background and I've used
it for years.

I should clarify, not the latest version, v272lite from 2001.

I tried newer versions, but they all got bloated and too many
"features," added that I had no use for and that made it run slower.

Xocyll