CocoModX Mac OS X Mod Player Project

.: About the project

CocoModX is a freeware audio module player for Mac OS X.
It is capable of playing i.e. mod, xm, it, s3m, ahx and tfmx zipped mod files named mdz.
It also has the capability of downloading files from http and ftp sites and decompress lha, umx and zip files.
Look here for the full list of the supported formats.
CocoModX has a nativ Cocoa frontend, and embeds the libmikmod, which was ported to Mac OS X by Fruitz-of-Dojo, the fast BASSMOD and the great MilkyPlay from Peter Barth. Also included the TFMX Framework based on the TFMX-Play by Jonathan H. Pickard and David Banz.

.: The News

Version 0.4.4: 25.02.2006

New Features:

• DigiTrekker and Digital Tracker playback support
• Update MilkyPlay
• New MilkyPlay options : 3 octaves-limit, 8xx and E8x effect support
• Better sub-song support i.e Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Dreams ...
• Get song-length from all MilkyPlay playable files ( not AHX and Future Composer )
• Minor GUI layout changes
• Added new column Path
• Copy&paste files between two playlist, from and into other applications
• Copy&paste selected tracks as text into the pastboard ( Hold ALT key by open the Edit menu )
• Save search results by switching between playlists
• Added info url into information window for the selected audio format
• Update Spotlight plugin
• Removed FMOD from CocoModX

Fixed Bugs:

• Set iChat Status back after closing CocoModX
• Fixed time output after pausing or manual position change
• Fixed problem by loading track informations by adding compressed files

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Version 0.4.3: 28.08.2005

• Added Future Composer, TFMX and Abyss Highest Experience WAV-Writer
• Fixed Impulse Tracker WAV-Writer
• Send Distribute Notifications to Mac OS X
• Fixed Panther problems with BASSMOD, MilkyPlay and playing TFMX Tracks
• Added option to overwrite existing WAV-files

• Update TFMX Framework to 1.2 ( include WAV Writer )

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Version 0.4.2: 14.08.2005

New Features:

• Update MilkyPlay:
  • Added a new fast WAV-Writer witch supports every module audio file ( except for TFMX, AHX and Future Composer )
  • Added Abyss Highest Experience, Digibooster,Future Composer and UMX support
• Added new playlist column Song-Length, File-Size and Tracker-Name
• Added Music Preferences for each Music-Libray. Support more options for MilkyPlay and BASSMOD
• Load Song-Length from MOD,IT, S3M and XM module files
• Update information window ( Show infos from non playing tracks and scroll thru songs )
• New Mac OS X like preferences
• Removed view-option and added the options into the main preferences
• En/Disable showing file extension in filename column
• Added Mac OS X Style search field
• Added some missing Finder-Icons
• Convert module files into XM Fasttracker
• Updated Spotlight-Plugin to support more module aufio files
• Remove Non playable Songs "Edit->Remove Non-Module tracks"
• Added F.A.Q Window
• Minor layout changes

• New CocoModX application icon
• Switch between 5 different application icons and add you own Icon

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Version 0.4.1: 26.06.2005

New Features:

• Update new MilkyPlay
• Add new Smart-playist "Last Added"
• recognize mod. in Open File Dialog
• Show mod file informations of non playing songs
• Enable/Disable Autoswitching music-libs via MainMenu
• Added Spotlight Plugin

Fixed Bugs:

• crash switching between some tracks using MilkyPlay
• volume setting between tracks
• music-library order not saved
• timdity++ export not working on OS X 10.4
• CocoModX does not start with external soundcard as primary soundcard

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Version 0.4.0: 12.06.2005

Unbelievable but true. CocoModX is back with a new version.

Fasten your seatbelts, because CocoModX has not one, not two ... but three new music libraries and many new supported file formats. First TFMX support finally made it into CocoModX. Special thank goes to Jonathan H. Pickard and David Banz for developing the TFMXPlay (Below on this side you will find the full source code of the used TFMX framework). Second we've got the BASSMOD from Ian Luck. BASSMOD is a fast, stable, low resource using mod library which supports the most common MOD formats. Last but not least we've got the MilkyPlay from Peter Barth. The MilkyPlay supports a lot of MOD formats and gives you support of some new formats like AMS, CBA, MDL, GDM, PLM, PTM and MXM. Further it gives you much better XM support then the other MOD libs does. So i made the MilkyPlay to the default MOD Library from CocoModX.

New Features:

• Update to FMOD 3.7.4
• TFMX Support
• Added BASSMOD library
• Added MilkyPlay library
• Improved GUI Layout
• Reading Song Messages from Tracks (MilkyPlay only)

Fixed Bugs:

• fixed memory leak
• get full tiger support

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11.11.2004

I just want to let you know, that i'am currently working to get CocoModX to play TFMX tracks and to get CocoModX under the GPL. This means a lot of code cleaning and comment adding work ;-)
I hope that i can give you an update the next 2-3 weeks.
At least i want you to show a screenshot of CocoModX playing TFMX file.

17.08.2004

Good morning Mod file liseners.
One year ago, the first public version of CocoModX was released.
Now after one year there have been over 15.000 downloads. Thank you all who have supported me, send me feedback or just using CocoModX. I promise you, there will me another year of many updates.
i.e. CocoModX goes GPL and get TFMX playback support in version 0.4

read the old news.

.: the Features

• able to play zipped mod files mdz
• use music library for administer your songs
• decompress ZIP and LHA files
• drag&drop from files and folder into CocoModX
• drag&drop files from CocoModX playlist into Mail, iChat and Finder
• available in english and german
• Pinestrip and Brushed-Metal look
• downloading and playing files from http and ftp
• URL Type support cmx:// URL Type example
• full Finder integration
• Dock-Menu navigation
• able to create own playlist
• Smart Playlist known from iTunes (Most played, Last played, Last added)
• changing status message from iChat
• converting every mod file to WAV
• opening and saving m3u playlist
• Applescript support for play, pause, next, prev, toggle playmode and convert files
• export playlist as ZIP archiv, Plain-Text and HTML document (with tracks)

.: supported Formats

Audio formats:

Abyss Highest Experience Amiga Oktalyzer Asylum 1.0 CBA converted Composer 669 DSIK DSM-Format DSM Module Format Digibooster Digital Tracker Digitracker 3 Digitrekker Disorder Tracker 2

Epic Megagames MASI Extended 669 Extreme Tracker Farandole Composer Fasttracker1+2 Future Composer 1.0-1.4 (AMIGA) General DigiMusic Imago Orpheus (MOD Format) Impulse Tracker (compressed) MXM Cubic Tiny XM MikMod UNI v4-v5 Module 15 Instruments Multitracker

OctaMed (MMD0 & MMD1) Oktalyser Oktalyzer Polytracker Protracker Screamtracker Startrekker TFMX TakeTracker Ultra Tracker Velvet Studio Wuzamod (STM)

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Compressed formats:

ZIP and MDZ LHA UMX

.: where to download

Download CocoModX

The included Libs:

CocoModX embeds all libraries, so you don't need to download any of the libraries to run CocoModX.

• Offical BASSMOD side
• Official MikMod side
• Offical MilkyPlay side
• Freshmeat TFMX-Play side

You can download here the full source code from the TFMX Framework (v1.2) for Mac OS X which i'm using for CocoModX

.: Some Screenshots

Player window with playlist	Output preferences
File information	Showing Sub-song informations

.: Frequently asked questions

Audio Module Files?

Take a look at Wikipedia here.

Why is the CPU % from CocoModX so high?

Disable the high quality output in the preferences
Switch from libmikmod to the BASSMOD or MilkyPlay library.

Why can't CocoModX play the file format x?

At the moment CocoModX only embeds the libmikmod,BASSMod, TFMX-Play and MilkyPlay
In the future i'm going to add more libs.

Why can't CocoModX play my files named "mod.something?"

This problem has been fixed with version 0.2.3.
But you can rename the file to "something.mod" and CocoModX is able to play this file.

Why can't CocoModX play .zip files?

This problem has been fixed with version 0.2.3.
But you can rename the file to something.mdz and CocoModX is able to play this file.

I have some window handling problems. Why happens this?

Disable the docking option in the preferences.
This is a small bug in Cocoa and i hope Apple is going to fix this for the future.

I have some Octamed files, but CocoModX dont play them!

CocoModX only supports Octamed files MMD0 and MMD1.

How can i convert MOD to WAV/AIFF files?

You have to install Timidity++ at your machine. After that you can convert files to wav or aiff
Advanced->Convert selection to ...
You can find Timidity++ at Versiontracker.com

How can i convert WAV/AIFF to MOD files?

You can not convert WAV/AIFF files into MOD files.

CocoModX plays only few second, then it jumps to the last pattern and stops!

Enable the looping in the preferences->output.

CocoModX doesn't sort correctly the counter, last played and date added column

Update to CocoModX 0.2.5

CocoModX seems to start the downoad but doesn't download any file!

Please check your Firewall.

Where can i download some Module Tracker files?

StalkingWolf.net
Modland
Aminet
S3M.com
The Mod Archiv
Nectarine Scene Music
Chip Tunes
Exotica

.: Contact/Feedback/Bug Report

You have some questions? What do you miss in CocoModX? What feature do you like? Or have you found a bug?
Send me feedback by mailing to cocomod@stalkingwolf.net

.: Special Thanks

• Peter Barth : for the great MilkyPlay library the WAV-Writer and helping to develop CocoModX
• Falk Heinzelmann : for the main CocoModX Icon
• Jens-Olaf Brand : for the alt. player icon, small playlist icon in sidebar
• hutno3 design : for the file icons -> Mail
• Ian Luck : for the BASSMOD
• David Banz & J. H. Pickard : for the TFMX-Play
• the mikmod and FMOD team : for this very nice music-libs
• Fruitz of Dojo : for the port of libmikmod to Mac OS X
• Shawn Holwegner : for the mini-mikmod
• Sebastian Krauss : answering dump questions ;-)
• Bobic, Jens-Olaf, Pascal, Roderick, Sascha, Sebastian, Jarle Berntsen: for Beta Testing

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