Googie Tcl extension which provides support for music modules under Tcl.
Music modules are usually files with extensions *.mod, *.s3m, *.it, *.xm but also many others.
Full manual page is placed here: http://scripts.one.pl/tclmod/docs/Tclmod.html
Homepage of extension is: http://scripts.one.pl/tclmod/
Some examples.
Simply playing modules is pretty easy:
package require Tclmod set mod [::tclmod::player load music.mod] ::tclmod::player start $mod
and here is little more advanced code, which builds simple GUI module player:
package require Tk
package require Tclmod
wm title . "Modules player"
entry .module -textvariable mod -width 50 -state disabled -bd 1
button .browse -text "Browse" -bd 1 -command {
set types {
{{Module} {.mod .s3m .xm .it .669 .apun .dsm .far .amf
.gdm .imf .med .mtm .okt .stm .stx .ult .uni}}
}
set mod [tk_getOpenFile -filetypes $types \
-title "Choose module file"]
.module configure -state normal
.module configure -state disabled
if {[info exists module]} {
::tclmod::player stop
::tclmod::player unload $module
}
set module [::tclmod::player load $mod]
}
button .play -text "Play!" -bd 1 -command {
if {[info exists module]} {
::tclmod::player start $module
}
}
button .stop -text "Stop" -bd 1 -command {::tclmod::player stop}
grid .module -column 0 -row 0 -sticky we -columnspan 3
grid .browse -column 3 -row 0
grid .play -column 2 -row 1 -sticky we
grid .stop -column 3 -row 1 -sticky weKnown bugs
DKF: They originated on the Amiga, and are basically like a combination of a MIDI instrument bank (sample set) and a MIDI file in one. (Well, the formats are completely different, but they are conceptually very similar). The formats are very good at representing complex pieces of instrumental music, but are really quite hostile to "consumer" use. They've fallen a lot out of favour due to being used a lot for doing knock-offs of copyrighted music, even though that was usually a really poor use of the format's power.
GPS: There are lots of unique artists too. The scene is rather interesting. It's like a subculture that flourishes on IRC and elsewhere. An archive I like is http://www.modarchive.com BTW; I usually play the files with mikmod or xmp (in pkgsrc), but that may change with this tclmod package :)