NostalgicPlayer
Modules are relatively small files which contains various sound samples and information on how they should be played. This way of making music goes a long way back, and even at the time of the Commodore 64 the concept was used. But it was on the Amiga computer it really started off. The original type of modules were made with a program called SoundTracker, but since then a lot of different module types have shown up, all of them offering different features - such as more sound channels, more samples, realtime echo and so on.
NostalgicPlayer is a program that can play these modules. NostalgicPlayer is a Windows version of the APlayer, which was started on the Amiga computer back in 1993, later continued on BeOS, and was a reaction to the lack of good module players for the Amiga.
Please enjoy this program, and support the development by giving any feedback (bug reports and flattering comments :-))
Download
If you want to try it out, you can install the player from Microsoft Store here. If you don't have any modules by yourself, check out my homepage. There you can find my collection of modules in all supported formats. When new formats are supported, the module list will grow.
License
NostalgicPlayer is licensed under the MIT License. Some parts of the player are 3rd party components which has been ported to C#. Their original licenses are the following:
- Ancient decruncher (BSD 2-Clause License)
- FFmpeg (GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1)
- libFLAC (BSD License)
- libOgg (BSD License)
- libOpus (BSD License)
- libOpusFile (BSD License)
- libTfmxAudioDecoder (GNU General Public License version 2)
- libVorbis (BSD License)
- libVorbisFile (BSD License)
- libXmp (MIT License)
- Parts of the MO3 converter based on OpenMPT (BSD-3-Clause License)
- Mpg123 (GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1)
- ReSIDfp (GNU General Public License version 2)
- SidPlayFp (GNU General Public License version 2)
Structure
The player is structured, so it is easy to create your own user interface around the logic. All the main logic is in the NostalgicPlayer.Library and NostalgicPlayer.Kit. The later is used by the agents to communicate with the player.
Agents can be anything, e.g. players, converters, visuals etc. You only need to include the agents you want to use, if you write your own player around the library. Just remember the credits. All agents are loaded dynamic, but you still need to have a reference to the ones you want to use. The reason for this, is to make sure that any packages an agent need is copied to your bin folder.
In the Clients folder, you can find two different clients that use the player. NostalgicPlayerConsole is a simple player that loads a single module and play it. It will then write some information to the console. NostalgicPlayer is a full blown player using Windows Forms and is the one that is released to the public.
Visual Studio
To load the solution and project files, you need to use at least Visual Studio Community 2026 (it is free) and .NET 10 framework.
Formats supported
Modules in all supported formats can be found on my homepage at https://nostalgicplayer.dk. Note that the modules on my homepage will first appear, after an official release of the player that can handle them. For a description of the module formats, see the documentation.
| Format | Extension | Converter | Player |
|---|
| AC1D Packer | .ac1d / .ac1 | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| Actionamics | .ast | | Actionamics |
| Activision Pro | .avp | | Activision Pro |
| AHX 1.x | .ahx / .thx | | HivelyTracker |
| AHX 2.x | .ahx / .thx | | HivelyTracker |
| AMOS Music Bank | .abk | | AMOS Music Bank |
| Archimedes Tracker | .musx | | Xmp |
| Art Of Noise | .aon | | Art Of Noise |
| Art Of Noise 8 voices | .aon8 | | Art Of Noise |
| Astroidea XMF | .xmf | | Xmp |
| Asylum Music Format | .amf | | Xmp |
| Audio Sculpture | .adsc | | ModTracker |
| AudioIFF | .aiff / .aif | | Sample |
| Ben Daglish | .bd | | Ben Daglish |
| Ben Replay | .ben | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| Binary Packer | .bnr | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| Channel Player 1 | .ch1 / .chn / .chan | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| Channel Player 2 | .ch2 / .chn / .chan | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| Channel Player 3 | .ch3 / .chn / .chan | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| ChipTracker | .chp / .chip / .krs / .kris | ProWizard | ModTracker |
| Coconizer | .coco | | Xmp |
| Composer 669 | .669 | | Xmp |
| David Whittaker | .dw | | David Whittaker |
| Delta Music 1.0 | .dm1 | | Delta Music 1.0 |
| Delta Music 2.0 |