Another Amiga Music Site - ModP3

[mihcael]

Yes, there is already plenty of mp3 sites with amiga music...

• http://www.modcast.de/
• http://www.amigamusic.com/
• http://www.amigaremix.com/
• http://guildserver.co.uk/kgwhd/gorillamusic/
• http://www.spoonwizard.com/
• http://www.metamods.de/index_en.html
• Stone Oakvalley's Amiga Music Collection!!!!!! no downloads yet keep an eye on out

but heres my site, ModP3 - http://modp3.mikendezign.com/
Why? It not just game music and not just demo music, its a bit of everything but with a strong focus towards scene music!!

Made for fun most of all so any comments are welcome! Would like to know what people think about the encoding quality. (i didnt do it, so no need to hold back ).

This is also an exercise in Web design for me! Using Php and MySql i have much to learn and would appreciate any comments (via pm if you like)

[mihcael]

And for the lazy ones...Heres all the ModP3's so far!!

21 new ones!! (Tuesday 29th July)

• Time Guardian - A.G Techno
• Doq - Hardcore World
• Tone C - Brainshock i
• Randall - La Luna
• Neurodancer - Chakral Frequency
• Moby - Groovy Thing
• Brainbug - Shinin ol Boots
• Tim Haywood - I Want You (Tim Buk 2 Rmx)
• Tonid - Slainte Mhor
• BassBomb - Operation September
• Stefan Uhlemann - Piano Lyrics
• Jogeir Liljedahl - Physical Presence
• Roberts - Music Voyage
• David Lindstrom - Aluminium
• DJ Thin - Go Get Busy
• Dr Awesome - Blood on the R-Top
• Xtd - Stink Bomb
• Timer - Energetic
• Slice - 57 Remix
• Counterpoint - Standing Close
• Travolta - Testlast
• Daxx - 95 Ravers Megamix
• Misty & Daeron - Reverie of Truth
• Punnik - De Die Hards
• Scorpik - Field Day
• Jester - Molecules Revenge
• Celsius - The Live Act 2
• Otis - Live In Amsterdam
• Vinnie - The Groovy Element
• Chromag - Switchback
• Prodigy - Happy Hardcore
• Vocal - Switchback
• BrainTumour & Heywood - Jammin In The Wind
• Lizardking - World of Insanity
• Ginseng - Let It Rip
• Neurodancer - 4 Spirits
• Jogeir Liljedahl - Guitar Slinger
• Olof Gustafsson - Light of Day
• Daxx & Turbo B - Capturing Matrix
• Mc Hill - Allusion of Rave
• Moby - Knulla Kuk!
• Barry Leitch - Lotus 2 (Title)
• Static - Human Target
• Azazel - Fracture
• Tekkless Spacehead - The Last Saga
• Sidewinder - 2 Bad Sheep
• Daxx - Children
• Echo - Cybernet
• Mad Freak - 3d-Demo-II Theme
• Unreal - Fountain of Sighs
• Romeo Knight - Boesendorfer P S S
• Jogeir Liljedahl - Signia
• Kevin Collier - Harley Music
• Pirat - Psychotic Angel
• Juice - Da Jungle Is Wicked
• Punnik - Sorry!
• X-ceed - Berlin 1931 AD
• Celsius - After Taste
• Otis - Thunderdon
• Romeo Knight - Piggies Hut
• Xtd - Reassurance
• Marc - Generation Love
• Punnik - Vort Boojaart!
• Tim Wright - Agony Intro
• Vesuri - Charly
• Daxx - Lockn Up Me Now
• Mark Knight - Acidic Lampshade
• Scavy & Mindfuck - Dancing Samba
• Hollywood - Spilt Milk
• Celsius-The Live Act 1
• Jesper Kyd-Global Trash III v2
• Slice-Technology
• Jogeir Liljedahl-G-Comp
• Jester-Elysium
• Vesuri-BrainChoir
• Pirat-Parliament Of Dreams
• Allister Brimble-px Bladswede Rmx
• Travolta-Condom Corruption
• Interphace-Phunq Ethereal
• Antibrain-Television
• Dexter-Big Throng
• Chorus & Sid-Killing Floor 2.1
• Daxx-Insenity
• Bionic-Pure Motion
• Sidewinder-The Scribe
• Rib-Stardust (Title)
• Shorty & Tim-Will Of The Wind
• Xtd-Discovery
• Heatbeat-Street Jungle
• Crunch-Brutal

[TCD]

Hi mihcael,

always good to have another archive of Amiga and scene music . I will listen to some tunes when I'm home this evening (which will be tomorrow morning down under ) and tell you how good the soundquality is. The design of the site is not bad and it's great that you have the downloads in both MOD and MP3 format

Edit : The conversion of the MOD files to MP3 is okay. I still prefer to listen to the orginal format, because you can mess around with the tune

[Harrison]

Looks good. For some reason the site design reminded my of BTTR when it first loaded.

Look forward to seeing more content on there, and I wish you luck for the future of the site. I hope you have the time to keep expanding it and making it another interesting Amiga centred site to visit.

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Hi mihcael,
...
The design of the site is not bad and it's great that you have the downloads in both MOD and MP3 format

Edit : The conversion of the MOD files to MP3 is okay. I still prefer to listen to the orginal format, because you can mess around with the tune

Cool! Need the mods to listen to them on Amigas!

Ever done any PT mods?

Originally Posted by Harrison

Looks good. For some reason the site design reminded my of BTTR when it first loaded.

...

This was not intentional, but perhaps i was sub-consciously inspired by BTTR (which seems to have gone a bit quiet, Ralf??)

[TCD]

Originally Posted by mihcael

Cool! Need the mods to listen to them on Amigas!

Ever done any PT mods?

Back in the days I did some. Then I used Fasttracker 2 for a long time, but since I use Windows XP and a new soundcard I had to abandon it I had a look at Milkytracker, but couldn't stand the GUI. Now I use Skale Tracker, but it seems it never reaches version 1.0... If anyone knows a good tracker that have the look and feel of FT2 please let me know

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Back in the days I did some. Then I used Fasttracker 2 for a long time,
...

Did you release them? what was your handle??

Any other 'back in the day' mod artists around here??

[TCD]

Originally Posted by mihcael

Did you release them? what was your handle??

No, it was just for 'private pleasure'

[mihcael]

added a few more in last few days!

2 most recent

• Tim Wright - Agony Intro
• Vesuri - Charly

(expect i might get some comments about Agony Title )

[TCD]

Originally Posted by mihcael

• Vesuri - Charly

Charly in Mod format Thank you very much mihcael! This is a sure mess around session this weekend

[gunatm]

Thanx. I like your website.

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by gunatm

Thanx. I like your website.

Thanks mate!

You liked Parliament Of Dreams? Its a great mod!!

[exoticaga]

Lossy mp3.

Isn't it a waste of time, converting to mp3 format. Mp3 spoils any music sound, it really cannot handle all the frequencies correctly at any bitrate.

You could be using wav format, Using a lossless wav packer such as flac or other, to reduce the wav file size to mp3 size. Both of thse are on both the pc and the amiga, and other platforms. It keeps the sound more original to the original.

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by exoticaga

Lossy mp3.

Isn't it a waste of time, converting to mp3 format. Mp3 spoils any music sound, it really cannot handle all the frequencies correctly at any bitrate.

You could be using wav format, Using a lossless wav packer such as flac or other, to reduce the wav file size to mp3 size. Both of thse are on both the pc and the amiga, and other platforms. It keeps the sound more original to the original.

What isn't a waste of time really?

Mp3 cause its easier for us and easier for the listener. I will try some flac to see if i can hear the difference!

EDIT- FLAC at 5-6 times the size of Mp3 the quality is not the main concern for me!

[Frog]

Hi mihcael,

I like most of it. Nice animated logo, pretty good comment on the mods which imo describe well most of the music.
If you want to check another lossy format, you should try .OGG, it has a better sound quality than MP3.

only "bad" point, i don't like too much the background

[OddbOd]

A good start for sure.

The editorial comments demonstrate that the site isn't just a dumping ground for old files i.e. the person that uploaded a tune has actually listened to it! I wish you guys all the best and hope the site is a great success.

Originally Posted by mihcael(?) on the ModP3 About Page

Competition!!

Name that mod...

For your name <- HERE -> name the module used in the title background animation.

It's Killing Floor 2.1 by Chorus & SID, the section in the animation (I think) starts at Pattern 3, Cursor Position 19.

Originally Posted by Frog

only "bad" point, i don't like too much the background

Mmm I have to agree with you there, in fact I disliked it so much I have removed it with a little CSS hack.

Some other design choices (bugs?) should probably be looked at also. The fixed width layout is ok at lower resolutions but looks sort of silly on a widescreen. The rating column un-hide on the Listing Page is quite distracting as it causes all the other columns to resize.

I completely understand your reasons for using CBR MP3 over any other format but do have to wonder if you will be adding an online player in addition to the downloads?

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by Frog

Hi mihcael,

I like most of it. Nice animated logo, pretty good comment on the mods which imo describe well most of the music.
If you want to check another lossy format, you should try .OGG, it has a better sound quality than MP3.

only "bad" point, i don't like too much the background

Thanks!!

The background... is in the background.... didnt really have any other options?

quite familiar with ogg, but happy with mp3 for the moment!!

Originally Posted by OddbOd

A good start for sure.

The editorial comments demonstrate that the site isn't just a dumping ground for old files i.e. the person that uploaded a tune has actually listened to it! I wish you guys all the best and hope the site is a great success.

It's Killing Floor 2.1 by Chorus & SID, the section in the animation (I think) starts at Pattern 3, Cursor Position 19.

Mmm I have to agree with you there, in fact I disliked it so much I have removed it with a little CSS hack.

Some other design choices (bugs?) should probably be looked at also. The fixed width layout is ok at lower resolutions but looks sort of silly on a widescreen. The rating column un-hide on the Listing Page is quite distracting as it causes all the other columns to resize.

I completely understand your reasons for using CBR MP3 over any other format but do have to wonder if you will be adding an online player in addition to the downloads?

Chorus and Sid Indeed, but how????

The background... i quite like it??? maybe on a wide screen it is a bit much! You disliked it so much???

The other comments about fixed width are right at the top of my list and the unhide was just "in the meantime", arsing around!!

Thanks for all the coments!

[OddbOd]

Originally Posted by mihcael

Chorus and Sid Indeed, but how????

I converted some of the pattern data that is visible in the banner graphic to it's hex equivalents using a MOD file specification found on the web, downloaded all the MODs from your site, then used Lookdisk to find which file contained the matching byte sequence. Gut instinct told me to confirm that I had calculated the byte sequences correctly which was fortunate because it turns out that octave numbering is not consistent between different trackers, without using the same version of Protracker I probably would have failed.

Originally Posted by mihcael

The background... i quite like it??? maybe on a wide screen it is a bit much! You disliked it so much???

In all honesty I needed to get some practice in using Opera's site specific CSS feature, ModP3 just happened to be open when I though of it

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by OddbOd

...
I completely understand your reasons for using CBR MP3 over any other format but do have to wonder if you will be adding an online player in addition to the downloads?

This is also something im thinking about, i would prefer to have a Radio channel but not quite sure how to go about that yet! If that doesn't happen i will add some sort of per mp3 online player, but it will have to be fairly discreet one!

Originally Posted by OddbOd

I converted some of the pattern data that is visible in the banner graphic to it's hex equivalents using a MOD file specification found on the web, downloaded all the MODs from your site, then used Lookdisk to find which file contained the matching byte sequence. Gut instinct told me to confirm that I had calculated the byte sequences correctly which was fortunate because it turns out that octave numbering is not consistent between different trackers, without using the same version of Protracker I probably would have failed.

In all honesty I needed to get some practice in using Opera's site specific CSS feature, ModP3 just happened to be open when I though of it

Thats dedication! you would of noticed you name on the about page by now? anything i should add??

The design was not tested in Opera, but i assume its more compliant than IE which took some fiddling about to look as intended!!

[mihcael]

New ones...

• Unreal - Fountain of Sighs
• Romeo Knight - Boesendorfer P S S
• Jogeir Liljedahl - Signia
• Kevin Collier - Harley Music
• Pirat - Psychotic Angel
• Juice - Da Jungle Is Wicked
• Punnik - Sorry!
• X-ceed - Berlin 1931 AD