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JavaScript XM Player

65 points by of 11y ago

duskwuff 11y ago
Two similar projects: http://mod.haxor.fi/ http://mod.haxor.fi/ http://www.cyrilpereira.com/modplayer/ http://www.cyrilpereira.com/modplayer/
- s-macke 11y ago
  And here an online player for SID files: http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html
hawski 11y ago
That is serious coolness. Could you wrap all this code to have something like <audio> tag playing XMs? Having same API/events as <audio>? In particular I would like to see playbackRate. I was working on music game and tempo effect was considered. I was wondering at a time if usage of tracker modules would give advantage. Especially ease of changing tempo and maybe automatic conversion of beats to levels. Now is there HTML5 Tracker?
- kruhft 11y ago
  Non-working (UI prototype only), but here's something I put together a while ago to test my homegrown JS framework[1] with the intent of adding an audio engine someday: http://busfactor1.ca/bin/tracker http://busfactor1.ca/bin/tracker [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/px2 https://www.npmjs.com/package/px2
derFunk 11y ago
That's awesome. I spent years on fasttracker in the late 90s. Some time ago I uploaded two xm tunes, converted to mp3, to here: https://www.soundcloud.com/derFunk https://www.soundcloud.com/derFunk I used to have a Gravis Ultrasound Soundcard with 4MB of RAM attached. I did over 300 tracks and was a member of a group called Stoned Brain Recordz. If I wouldn't have switched to coding, I would still make music today :) Nice to see this project, keep it up.
- 0x0 11y ago
  Wasn't the GUS limited to 1024k RAM though?
  - derFunk 11y ago
    To be precise, it was the GUS PnP. IIRC it could handle up to 8mb.
babuskov 11y ago
FWIW, modarchive has a new, JavaScript base player since September: http://modarchive.org/news.php?13841 http://modarchive.org/news.php?13841 It uses HTML5 for audio output: https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js
fla 11y ago
Don't miss the very interesting blog post http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html
- Zikes 11y ago
  Since the blog post contains the player just the same as the current link, it would probably be better to change the link to the blog.
frandroid 11y ago
9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538791

65 points by of 11y ago

Two similar projects: http://mod.haxor.fi/ http://mod.haxor.fi/ http://www.cyrilpereira.com/modplayer/ http://www.cyrilpereira.com/modplayer/

s-macke 11y ago
And here an online player for SID files: http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html http://simulationcorner.net/Sidplayer/index.html

hawski 11y ago

That is serious coolness. Could you wrap all this code to have something like <audio> tag playing XMs? Having same API/events as <audio>? In particular I would like to see playbackRate. I was working on music game and tempo effect was considered. I was wondering at a time if usage of tracker modules would give advantage. Especially ease of changing tempo and maybe automatic conversion of beats to levels. Now is there HTML5 Tracker?

kruhft 11y ago
Non-working (UI prototype only), but here's something I put together a while ago to test my homegrown JS framework[1] with the intent of adding an audio engine someday: http://busfactor1.ca/bin/tracker http://busfactor1.ca/bin/tracker [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/px2 https://www.npmjs.com/package/px2

derFunk 11y ago

That's awesome. I spent years on fasttracker in the late 90s. Some time ago I uploaded two xm tunes, converted to mp3, to here: https://www.soundcloud.com/derFunk https://www.soundcloud.com/derFunk I used to have a Gravis Ultrasound Soundcard with 4MB of RAM attached. I did over 300 tracks and was a member of a group called Stoned Brain Recordz. If I wouldn't have switched to coding, I would still make music today :) Nice to see this project, keep it up.

0x0 11y ago
Wasn't the GUS limited to 1024k RAM though?
- derFunk 11y ago
  To be precise, it was the GUS PnP. IIRC it could handle up to 8mb.

babuskov 11y ago

FWIW, modarchive has a new, JavaScript base player since September: http://modarchive.org/news.php?13841 http://modarchive.org/news.php?13841 It uses HTML5 for audio output: https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js

fla 11y ago

Don't miss the very interesting blog post http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html http://www.a1k0n.net/2015/11/09/javascript-ft2-player.html

Zikes 11y ago
Since the blog post contains the player just the same as the current link, it would probably be better to change the link to the blog.

frandroid 11y ago

9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10538791