hello, big respect to the creators of MO3
well done guyzs!
but beside that i want to give a big note! about what your doing can be dangerous and work in the oposite way you wanted it to work!
its the same problem we have today with mp3's!
if you download a mp3 you know the quality!? you think you really know? i don't think so!
it says often 192 kbits but what if the mp3 was done by a cd which already was compressed in mp3' 128kbits?
or what if the mp3 files were created of ogg files! the sound quality will drop drop and nobody knows it!
mod files you can only be get mostly (for me) in the internet not on cd so you never know anymore if you visit a website what actually the quality was or is! is the mod i download know the real mod or was he reconverted of M03? you will never 100% know you have to invest time time time! then what about a collection of known mods when the CRC checksum changes? you will have endless duplicates of mods and will lose space time quality! i enjoyed mod files so often because the sound was really something other than ogg or mp3 not thats this now with m03 also but why the hell again a loosy compression?
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and the other big problem is the size of mod files its easy to convert quick and thousands mod files into m03!
then you give this nice collection to a frend who wants to play it which his mod plugins on his old rare computer! what does he do he reconverts it again to mod! later on he give his mod collection maybe also away what does the next guy do? ???no shit again he wants m03 files
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you see it will get a big problem! mods will get lost forever ! you need for every mod a timestamp that he was created before the date of 2000!!
please think over what youre doing! the idear is great but i think its better to compress mod *.MDZ files are better!
or use monkey's audio compression ! nah don't take me to serious!
a real future project would be to create MP3 --> to M03 files that would the ultimate hack! which would saves again 90 % discspace.
Keep On The Good Work And Think Over The Details! WHich Are IMPORTANT!
Klaus Pino Airoldi