Hello,
I was seen this forum thread about a petition for release the specs of MO3 format, this format seems a very interesting format and could be nice for all those trackers and other stuff like reduce a lot the size of the mod collections
Webpage about the MO3 format
Some info about the format:
MO3 is a file format, encapsulating the features of several "MOD" formats (IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD), but with one big difference - MP3 and OGG compressed samples. A lossless codec is also incorporated for any samples that don't like lossy encoding, and the whole file structure is compressed too.
All this makes it possible to have great reductions in file sizes with practically identical sound quality. Infact, MO3 allows greater quality compositions because MP3/OGG encoding works best with 16-bit samples, so there's no reason to use low quality 8-bit samples anymore.
* MP3/OGG compression: Any command-line MP3 or OGG encoder can be used with the MO3 encoder.
* Lossless compression: Samples that don't compress well with MP3/OGG encoding can still be reduced in size with the lossless codec.
* Structure compression: All the non-sample data is also compressed.
* Sample specific tuning: The encoding sample/bit rates are individually adjustable for each sample, with visual comparison of original/encoded samples.
* Text removal: Message/instrument/sample texts can optionally be removed for a further size reduction.
* Decompressable: MO3 files can be decoded back to their original formats using the UNMO3 utility (see below).
* Playable: MO3 files can be played by XMPlay and any software that uses the BASS library, also by other software in conjunction with UNMO3.
(This is one of the problems actually, with the specs it will can be played in a lot of other systems, like GP32)
SIGN HERE THE PETITION FOR HAVE THE MO3 FORMAT SPECS!
I was seen this forum thread about a petition for release the specs of MO3 format, this format seems a very interesting format and could be nice for all those trackers and other stuff like reduce a lot the size of the mod collections
Webpage about the MO3 format
Some info about the format:
MO3 is a file format, encapsulating the features of several "MOD" formats (IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD), but with one big difference - MP3 and OGG compressed samples. A lossless codec is also incorporated for any samples that don't like lossy encoding, and the whole file structure is compressed too.
All this makes it possible to have great reductions in file sizes with practically identical sound quality. Infact, MO3 allows greater quality compositions because MP3/OGG encoding works best with 16-bit samples, so there's no reason to use low quality 8-bit samples anymore.
* MP3/OGG compression: Any command-line MP3 or OGG encoder can be used with the MO3 encoder.
* Lossless compression: Samples that don't compress well with MP3/OGG encoding can still be reduced in size with the lossless codec.
* Structure compression: All the non-sample data is also compressed.
* Sample specific tuning: The encoding sample/bit rates are individually adjustable for each sample, with visual comparison of original/encoded samples.
* Text removal: Message/instrument/sample texts can optionally be removed for a further size reduction.
* Decompressable: MO3 files can be decoded back to their original formats using the UNMO3 utility (see below).
* Playable: MO3 files can be played by XMPlay and any software that uses the BASS library, also by other software in conjunction with UNMO3.
(This is one of the problems actually, with the specs it will can be played in a lot of other systems, like GP32
)SIGN HERE THE PETITION FOR HAVE THE MO3 FORMAT SPECS!
