modp

Video game music player.

Currently supported backends are libopenmpt and game music emulator. Should play many files directly with playlist support (for song lengths and titles) from *.joshw.info.

Command line options:

-p    Initial path, default is "."
-f    Path to a BDF font, default is an internal font
-v    Pixel-double font vertically, default is 0
-a    Auto increment at min length/song end, default is 1
-n    Random song at auto increment, default is 0
-m    Song minimum length, default is 0
-w    Window width, default is 800
-e    Window height, default is 480
-l    Framerate limit, default is 60.00
-r    Background color red component, default is 0.00
-g    Background color green component, default is 0.33
-b    Background color blue component, default is 0.67

-h    Show default command line options

Building

Windows/Linux

Uses MSYS2 on Windows.

• Download libopenmpt from here, build and install.
• Download game-music-emu 0.6.2, from here, apply contrib/gme-0.6.2-playlist_patch.diff, build and install (use -G "MSYS Makefiles" if on Windows). The patch improves playlist compatibility with music files from *.joshw.info.
• Install prerequisites (libportaudio, libarchive, SDL2, fftw etc).
• run ./configure && make Building on ubuntu +22:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential git cmake libsdl2-dev libarchive-dev portaudio19-dev libxmp-dev libopenmpt-dev libfftw3-dev libsidplayfp-dev
git clone https://github.com/intealls/modp.git
cd modp
git clone https://bitbucket.org/mpyne/game-music-emu.git
cd game-music-emu/
# patch, build and install gme
patch -p1 < ../contrib/gme-b3d158a-playlist.patch
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
make && make install
cd ..
# build modp
./configure
make

Notes

You can find a bunch of interesting bitmap fonts to try out here, not all of them work though.