media.io loves Trackers and the Demo Scene
Last Sunday saw the release of a number of changes to media.io. Here’s what’s new:
Support for 21 Tracker Formats
Back in the early 90s, I wrote tracker music on my Amiga 500 using MED and sometimes OctaMED and I’m proud to announce that media.io now supports 21 formats by various trackers.
This feature was made possible by the nice folks who wrote the VideoLAN VLC player and the ModPlug library. For those interested, here is a VLC forum thread that details my settings.
In addition to the tracker formats, support for .m4r has also been added.
Here is a full list of new supported file extensions:
.mod.s3m.xm.it.669.amf.ams.dbm.dmf.dsm.far.mdl.med.mtm.okt.ptm.stm.ult.umx.mt2.psm.m4r
Translations
media.io has been translated to seven languages:
Thanks to the translators.
Smaller Changes and Bug Fixes
- Some music files could not be converted because their tags were invalid. This has been solved.
- Performance improvements. Resource loading was optimized, leading to faster loading pages.
- Redirections for previously used URLs were created. This helps avoid 404 errors.
- Download links were removed. This was a feature that wasn’t well understood as many temporary URLs were posted to Twitter, leading to many 404 errors. A similar feature will be back some day.
- No more “Extended Version.” While the Extended Version was working to some extent, it was clearly not working well so the feature was deleted. A different solution will come in the future.
- Files that no longer exist are ignored. Some people spend hours converting files and since files are deleted after an hour, media.io would attempt to re-convert them.
- Files that are internally renamed before conversion were not shown. Some file extensions are just aliases for others and media.io renames them internally.
- Very rarely, some files could not be uploaded. This has been fixed.
