Add support for tracker file formats

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From asbjornu on October 09, 2011 00:20:29

Currently, the only player with great support for demoscene tracker formats (.s3m, .it, .mod, .xm, etc) is XMPlay (through its BASS library). The sad thing about XMPlay is that it only runs in Windows, while the awesome Clementine is available on all platforms! Yay Clementine!

However, since Clementine doesn't have support for these tracker formats, us non-Windows users are left with the VLC, which both is a mediocre (or worse) music player and has poor support for named formats. Clementine would be at least 3.14 times better if it added support for these old-school epic tracker formats. Please consider it!

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=2284

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From davidsansome on July 17, 2012 06:40:39

Issue 3061 has been merged into this issue.

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From asbjorn....@okb.no on July 17, 2012 06:53:26

For superb (cross platform) Impulse Tracker format support, Schism Tracker might be a good starting point: http://schismtracker.org/

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From patryk1303 on October 27, 2012 05:27:56

libxmp seems to be good library for modules support: http://freecode.com/projects/libxmp

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From adrian.d...@gmail.com on November 11, 2012 15:26:54

Gstreamer plugins support the playback of s3m, mod and xm, albeit searching inside a track is not possible. I don't have other formats to check if they work.

However tracker formats are not visible in file browser inside Clementine, dragging them from Dolphin works fine.

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From andy.rad...@gmail.com on October 28, 2013 15:49:54

gstreamer supports these, (and many other formats like .SPC) but on Windows' version of Clementine, dragging an .IT or .mod file to the playlist gives the message "Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in"

Could also be fixed (on Windows only) by adding support for winamp's *_in.dll plugins. The plugin bundle "Chimpamp" handles most trackers' and game consoles' formats.

[webodan]

Sorry for necroposting, but which exactly is the plugin for this? i have the "good", "bad", and ugly sets of gstreamer plugins but i can't get xm's or mod's to play. Throws me that gstreamer lacks a plugin.

[cyraid]

I also "+1" this. Being able to play my NES/SNES/N64 files without converting them first would be nice (my chiptune collection is bigger than my converted collection). Deadbeef player plays these, but IMO what an awful player it is.. lol

[jaimemrjm]

However tracker formats are not visible in file browser inside Clementine, dragging them from Dolphin works fine.

It doesn't work for me in Clementine 1.2.3

[iamtakingithard]

+1 also there is a C++ library called libopenmpt which can be used to play all of these tracker music. https://lib.openmpt.org/libopenmpt/