ZXTune - Chiptunes player

Vitamin/CAIG

About this app

ZXTune - Chiptunes player

Player of computer music from ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari, Commodore and more!

Visit official project site at https://zxtune.bitbucket.io

Supported formats:
- ZX Spectrum (ASC, FTC, GTR, PSC, PSG, PSM, PT1/PT2/PT3, SQT, STC/ST1/ST3, STP, VTX, YM, TurboSound tracks, AY with embedded player, TXT files for Vortex Tracker II, CHI, DMM, DST, ET1, PDT, SQD, STR, TFC, TFD, TFE)
- PC (669, AMF, AMS, C67, DMF, DSM, FAR, FMT, FNK, GDM, IMF, IT, J2B, LIQ, PLM, PSM, MDL, MO3, MT2, MTM, PTM, RTM, S3M, STIM, STM, STX, ULT, V2M, XM)
- Amiga (DBM, EMOD, MOD, IMS, MED, OKT, SFX, AHX)
- Atari (DTM, GTK, TCB, SAP, RMT)
- Acorn (DTT)
- Sam Coupe (COP)
- Commodore 64/128 MOS6581 (SID)
- Amstrad CPC (AYC)
- Super Nintendo (SPC)
- Multiplatform (MTC, VGM, GYM)
- Nintendo (NSF, NSFe)
- GameBoy (GBS, GSF)
- TurboGrafX (HES)
- MSX (KSS)
- PlayStation (PSF, PSF2, AT3, AT9)
- Ultra64 (USF)
- Nintendo DS (2SF, NCSF)
- Dreamcast (DSF)
- Saturn (SSF)
- Generic (MP3, OGG, WAV, FLAC)
- XSPF (import and export) and AYL (import only) playlists
- Archives (ZIP, RAR, LHA, UMX, GZip, 7zip and FSB)

Integration with music catalogues
- ZX Spectrum music catalogue http://zxtunes.com
- ModLand music collection ftp://ftp.modland.com
- High Voltage SID Collection catalogue http://www.hvsc.c64.org
- Modern ZX Spectrum music catalogue http://www.zxart.ee/eng/music
- Josh W catalogues http://joshw.info
- Amiga Music Preservation http://amp.dascene.net
- The AY Great Original Resource http://abrimaal.pro-e.pl/aygor/
- The Mod Archive http://modarchive.org
- Atari SAP Music Archive http://asma.atari.org
- Aminet catalogue http://aminet.net
- VGMRips https://vgmrips.net
- Scene.org file archive https://files.scene.org/

Functionality:
- single version for phones and tablets
- supported resolutions up to xxhdpi
- works on Android starting from 4.0.3 (API v14)
- pausing while incoming/outgoing calls
- headset playback control (not for all devices)
- different interpolation modes with performance and quality optimizations
- caching of playlist entries on local SD card
- home screen widget
- send modules and share references to modules from http://zxtunes.com, http://www.zxart.ee/eng/music and http://modarchive.org
- ability to set chiptune as ringtone
- search and playback modules from archives

Used permissions:
- internet access/network status for remote data sources access
- read/write SD card for local data sources access and playlists export
- wake lock for scan service speedup
- change system settings to set chiptune as ringtone

Ratings and reviews

A wonderful option to play your favorite game music such as .nsf, .gbs, etc. The only problem is its support for .hes, since the player has a limit of 32 tracks for that format, and there are a number of TG16 soundtracks where the music starts at a later number, such as Bomberman '94, where the music starts at #107. Other than that, it's a great player I can recommend. Edit: One idea for that particular soundtrack is to have the player automatically start at #107, like NEZplug++ for Winamp does.

This is overall really great, and supports a surprisingly wide variety of formats! Having come from Droidsound after it hit the point of age-related incompatibility, I'd say this is a solid transition for sure. However, on that same front, I do sorely miss one thing: I have some .IT (ImpulseTracker) music files which have subsongs, and ZXtune has no idea about them. It seems to ignore the loop points that separate them, even when the player's in loop mode, and also can't skip betwen them.

09/30 Edit: In my original review, I mentioned that saving and loading Playlists is not entirely intuitive. It's a somewhat clunky step-by-step progress at present, and loading Playlists also rescans all the files. While this remains true, the author IS WORKING ON IT, which I appreciate! That aside, this is a darn good little player for most module formats (except FST) and several chiptune formats (ZX Spectrum, C64, et cetera.) It has options for cover art, too! Simple, but very sweet.

What’s new

Build 5100:

* supported downloads.khinsider.com online catalogue
* icons in browser (tracks' coverart and graphics for some online catalogues entities)
* fixed aminet catalogue
* fixed ocremix catalogue for old android devices
* fixed ID3 tags processing
* fixed RAR processing with unicode filenames