UNMO3 unhappiness

Started by Larry Hastings,

Larry Hastings

I'm writing a shareware game for Windows, and I'd planned to use MOD files for all my music.  Since I discovered the joy of MO3, I've switched to that and enjoyed impressive file-size savings.

However, it appears the conversion to MO3 is something of a one-way trip.  I tried UNMO3 on one of my MO3s, and the resulting MOD (actually an IT):
  • Was 2.5x larger than the original.
  • Produced an incredible amount of white noise distortion when playing in Winamp 2 and Winamp 3.
  • Was rendered as a very quiet & still drum-only track by FMOD.
Let me hasten to add: the UNMO3'd IT played fine in XMPlay, Sonique, and YAMP.

But here's the thing.  I was thinking I might reward exceptional play by doling out my media files (which will normally be stored in a hopelessly obscure archive format).  I figured I would UNMO3 the MO3 files, 'cause they probably wouldn't have XMPlay and they'd want to play it in Winamp.  But I can't do that if the songs are horrifically distored in Winamp.

Is there anything to be done for this?  Would you like the original IT and the MOS settings file?


larry

Ian @ un4seen

Yep, please upload the files to have a look at...
      ftp://ftp.un4seen.com/incoming/

Regarding the increased UNMO3'd file size... the original IT file probably had compressed samples, while the samples are not re-compressed in the UNMO3'd version. ("All IT files are written as non-compressed v2.14 compatible IT files.")

Ian @ un4seen

Ok. I've found what Winamp was apparently objecting to, and it's been sorted for the next UNMO3 release.

Larry Hastings

Hooray!  Does that fix it for FMOD as well?


larry

Zarggg

#4
Oi. Why would anyone want to listen to mods using Winamp? At least use ModPlug. /puke. :evil:

Ian @ un4seen

QuoteHooray!  Does that fix it for FMOD as well?
Nope, but who cares? :evil:

UNMO3'd IT files load fine with everything else I've tried, including Impulse Tracker and Modplug Tracker (one of which the original file was likely created in).