Streaming Mod music

[kapz]

Lately I have been into the huge underworld of Mod music (aka Chip tune or Demoscene). These files are usually only a few KB in size for a song that can be minutes long. The file extensions vary, but usually end in .mod, .xm, .ym.

If I allow those extension masks in the general settings (when logged in as admin) and try to play them, winamp brings up a “Retrieving Module” dialog. It looks like it is buffering a few songs. Subsonics play list refreshes and a few songs have been skipped, but it does play. The music will play sometimes or just pause on the “Retrieving Module” dialog.

See the site below for the collection that I would like to stream. The files are all zipped. Maybe I could unzip a bunch, do you know a transcoder that could convert MOD music to WAV, where then I could use LAME to encode a stream.

http://modarchive.org/index.php?TMATorrentsAbout

I would love to keep the collection zipped and be able to stream the music while at work.

Thanks for your feedback.

-kapz

[mars96]

Lately I have been into the huge underworld of Mod music (aka Chip tune or Demoscene). These files are usually only a few KB in size for a song that can be minutes long. The file extensions vary, but usually end in .mod, .xm, .ym.

If I allow those extension masks in the general settings (when logged in as admin) and try to play them, winamp brings up a “Retrieving Module” dialog. It looks like it is buffering a few songs. Subsonics play list refreshes and a few songs have been skipped, but it does play. The music will play sometimes or just pause on the “Retrieving Module” dialog.

See the site below for the collection that I would like to stream. The files are all zipped. Maybe I could unzip a bunch, do you know a transcoder that could convert MOD music to WAV, where then I could use LAME to encode a stream.

http://modarchive.org/index.php?TMATorrentsAbout

I would love to keep the collection zipped and be able to stream the music while at work.

Thanks for your feedback.

-kapz

You didn't write for which operating system you need it.
For Windows look here: http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/Mod2Wav.html

The website you mentioned uses JMOD a Java library (http://virtualuniverse.dev.java.net/jmod.html) to play it in a browser window.
So far I didn't look into the transcoding source from Sindre nor into the JMOD source but it should be doable.

[kapz]

I am running subsonic on a XP Pro machine currently.

Mars96, thanks for the links. I did some googling but did not come across these.

It looks like Mod2Wav is a plug in for Total Command shareware application.