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[Keltic Danor]

A xm file does'nt have to have an .xm extension. I have quite a few that have the mod extension (since they are mods). It does'nt matter too much since xmplay know what the file is.

If fact you can tell what the file really is by looking at the mod in notepad.

If its an XM, it'll have Extended Module written at the start.

[Ian @ un4seen]

XMPlay says "XM?" when it detects that the XM file was not made in FT2.

Most of the time it's not possible to detect what tracker an XM was made in, but some old MPT had a small difference in the header - it said "FastTracker v 2.00" instead of the normal "FastTracker v2.00". I don't think the new MPT versions do this anymore, which is a pity because it atleast made them detectable ... XMPlay also says "XM?" when there are more than 32 channels, because FT2 does not support more than 32 channels.

XMPlay does a few things differently for the non-FT2 detected files, to match some things that MPT does differently to FT2.

[Hakan]

Maybe not a good technique of detecting, but if the name of the Extended Module is padded, MPT pads it with zeros (0x00) whereas FT2 pads with spaces (0x20).

[Fraggie]

Now, with some IT files XMPlay says IT 2.15 or IT 2.16. As I'm concerned the last tracker version was 2.14 (patch 5 or sth), so what does it mean? And what are the differences to 2.14?

[Ralesk]

I think it was in one of the other txt files that came with IT:

Contributors Additions
 - IT215 file format saving. Note that this is an alternative compression
     format and is often better, but not always. Public releases of IT214
     Patch 1 and later can read IT215 compressed files. There is also a
     version of MikIT that can read IT215 compression.

[Fraggie]

Okay, but how do I enable IT215 saving? And what's 2.16?

[Ralesk]

>>>>>Contributors' Additions<<<<<

Only registered IT2.x have it

I have never heard of IT2.16, have to ask Jeff... if he ever answers...

[Fraggie]

>>>>>Contributors' Additions<<<<<

Only registered IT2.x have it

Doh!

I have never heard of IT2.16, have to ask Jeff... if he ever answers...

Well, it looks like it's something with the MIDI stuff... (Resonant filters or so...)

[raina]

The registered IT 2.16 has the 4 patches made for 2.14 and some candy like stereo disk writer.