what is .MOD file structure?

[morteza_kianian]

Hi,
This is Morteza from India. im planning to build an
Electronic Embedded Device which can Read .MOD files and
play them, well i did a few googling on the net and i found
that ModPlug is the best software for producing MOD files or
i better say Amiga music files on PC. for my project i need
complete information about structure of .MOD files and it
would be very helpful if i can have a look at the source
code of this software. i'll be grateful if you help me.

best regards.

[älskling]

Welcome Morteza. You can find sources of various modplug based applications at sourceforge and here's a description of the MOD file format.

[Sam_Zen]

Yep, welcome, Morteza. Nice plans you have.
Are you aware of the fact that, among the module formats, .MOD is a quite restricted one ?
You better check out the .XM and .IT formats as well.

Thanks, älskling ! I missed that format description in my collection.

[morteza_kianian]

Thanks you very much guys. i'll surely look at .XM and .IT file format too. thanks for the advise.

[Saga Musix]

be aware at XM and especially IT are a lot more hardware-demanding than plain mod files. Don't forget this on embedded devices.

[morteza_kianian]

OK i see. so can anyone send me any link regarding .XM or .IT formats? i couldn't find any good link. and could you please explain why is it more Hardware-demanding? the problem is i can't understand the difference between these file formats :oops:  because they almost work the same way.

[Saga Musix]

those formats have many features which MOD doesn't have, like volume/panning/pitch/filter (XM partly, IT all of them) envelopes or resonant filters (IT). Those are a few reasons why most modules will need more cpu time. Impulse Tracker and Fast Tracker ][ both come with very little format description and even less playback description, so i fear this is a rather complicated task :\

[Sam_Zen]

2 morteza
If you did a search you could have found this information in the tech-doc department of this forum, but anyway ..:

Descriptions of the IT format and the XM format.

[morteza_kianian]

thank you. im very happy to see you are really contributing in this project. at the moment im just reading the file structures. i have to understand it completely first. please feel free to express your ideas which you feel are useful for me.

[Sam_Zen]

Well, first feel free to express your ideas after you've read and understand the file structures.

[morteza_kianian]

sure my friend  :lol: