{"id":271,"date":"2020-06-16T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2022-09-11T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T11:37:46","slug":"my-1990s-mod-tracker-music-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"My 1990s MOD tracker music collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in the days well before MP3 music, We&#8217;d download and play Amiga <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Module_file\">MOD<\/a> tracker music from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulletin_board_system\">BBS<\/a> systems. MODs contained small instrument samples and instructions on how to play them together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason, all these years I&#8217;ve kept my old collection of MOD music and I&#8217;ve realised many of these early computer music files may no longer be found on the Internet, so I&#8217;ve published them here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/\">https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern PCs can play these files with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/#download\">VLC.<\/a> &#8211; On Windows you may need to download the file and open it in VLC manually as the Film &amp; TV app will try and open them by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favourite songs are <a href=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/DJ_PAUL.MOD\">Life is Like a Dance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/2ND_PM.S3M\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/2ND_PM.S3M\">UnreaL ][ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/POP_CRN.MOD\">Pop_Crn<\/a> is a song I converted from a <a href=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/MOD\/POP_CRN.MID\">MIDI file<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the days well before MP3 music, We&#8217;d download and play Amiga MOD tracker music from BBS systems. MODs contained small instrument samples and instructions on how to play them together. For some reason, all these years I&#8217;ve kept my old collection of MOD music and I&#8217;ve realised many of these early computer music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My 1990s MOD tracker music collection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vk6hgr.net.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}