https://github.com/mschwendt/libtfmxaudiodecoder
Another music player backend library supporting several music file formats originally created by two renowned game soundtrack pioneers from the Commodore Amiga era of computing:
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TFMX by Jochen Hippel (incl. the ripoffs
Future Composerand MCMD) -
TFMX by Chris Hülsbeck (
The Final Musicsystem eXtended) -
file format modifications TFMXPACK, TFMX-MOD, TFHD + some unnamed modpacks
Despite sharing the name tag TFMX and the 7V feature, it's two music players that are vastly different. Even simple concepts like ADSR volume envelopes are done differently.
This library is a successor of libfc14audiodecoder and is in the same style. Hopefully some of this will help with improving the TFMX support of projects like UADE or tfmx-play. Particularly tfmx-play has been merged into various multi-format music players, but remains incomplete.
Tell me! https://github.com/mschwendt/libtfmxaudiodecoder/issues
I've mostly listened to the Logical soundtrack by
Rudolf Stember in a looping playlist (since
it's among my favourite TFMX modules), and heard Monster Time and
Rest In Peace by Jan Krolzig for the first time. Whoah!
The library has been tested with a large number of files from old and current major collections like Modland and ExoticA.
If you are an author of a music player, please give this library a try, and consider adding a plug-in, if you like what you hear.
Within music collections, the music data files recognized by this library usually use a file name extension from this list:
.tfmx, .tfx, .tfm, .mdat
.hip, .hipc, .hip7, .mcmd
.fc, .fc13, .fc14, .fc3, .fc4, .smod
Some of the music comes as a pair of files (music data + separate samples file), if it has not been converted into a single-file format, e.g.:
foo.mdat + foo.smpl
bar.tfx + bar.sam
In case it is the original file naming style from Commodore Amiga, where the file type name extension was a prefix,
mdat.foo + smpl.foo
it is strongly recommended to rename your files and give them PC-style
extensions instead. For example, .tfx and .sam is a good compromise
for TFMX mdat. and smpl. files.
The library backend itself inspects the actual input data while it tries to determine the underlying file format. Yet if it's a pair of files, it tries to find the second file based on guessing its file name extension.
- Audacious with this input plugin
- DeaDBeeF with this input plugin
- ...
- https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/TFMX
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFMX
- https://modland.com/ and https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Category:Amiga_Music_Formats
- https://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/
- http://thethalionsource.w4f.eu/Hippel/hippelm.htm
- https://remix64.com/ as a hub for the C64 and Amiga remix community.