Mod4Win is a media player for

module file Module file (MOD music, tracker music) is a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in the late 1980s. Those who produce these files (using the software called music trackers) and listen to them f ...

s written by Kay Bruns. It is skinnable, multi-format

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. It was one of the first Mod players for the

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platform. Mod4Win was first released by Kay Bruns in 1993. Development was suspended in May 1999.

History

The first fully functional model of MOD4WIN was released in September 1993 and it was a pre-release. The first shareware release was done on November 28, 1993. The first commercial version was released on January 14, 1994. The developer released the final beta, version 2.40, as an unrestricted application after development was suspended.

Features

Formats

* Module formats:

Impulse Tracker Impulse Tracker is a multi-track music tracker (music sequencer). Originally released in 1995 by Jeffrey Lim as freeware with commercial extensions, it was one of the last tracker programs for the DOS platform. In 2014, on its 20th anniversary, ...

(IT), Fast Tracker 2 (XM), Oktalyzer (OKT),

Scream Tracker 3 ''Scream Tracker'' is a tracker (an integrated multi-track step sequencer and sampler as a software application). It was created by Psi (Sami Tammilehto), one of the founders of the Finnish demogroup Future Crew. It was written in C and assembly ...

(S3M), MultiTracker (MTM),

Protracker ProTracker is a music tracker for the Amiga platform. A free software tool that required no additional equipment, it became popular in the early 1990s with both amateurs and professionals, allowing for sample-based music in the MOD file format. ...

(MOD), Unreal Music Format (UMX),

MO3 MO3 is a tracker module file format developed by Ian Luck for the BASSMOD engine. MO3 files contain samples encoded in the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats, rather than straight PCM samples. This results in reduced file size for the module, while main ...

* All Amiga formats * Full archive support for

ARJ ARJ (Archived by Robert Jung) is a software tool designed by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency data compression, compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.86 for MS-DOS and 3.20 for Microsoft Windows and supports 16-bit, 3 ...

LHARC LHA or LZH is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. It was created in 1988 by , a doctor and originally named LHarc. A complete rewrite of LHarc, tentatively named ''LHx'', was eventually released as ''LH''. It was then rena ...

(LHA) (LZH)

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