From: "Andrew Crystall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
WinAmp is an awful MOD player. But basically think of a MOD file as a MIDI with it's instruments embedded rather than relying on those on the sound card.
Before MP3's came in, I liked them because they allways sounded the same on any system (unlike MIDI's), and are small compared to WAV's.
It's a real shame the .mod format and its siblings (.sc3, .669, .xm, etc) are largely dead (though you can still find we sites with tons of them). Maybe they still live on in the Amiga community.
Many can sound synthetic (many deliberately so), but I have a few great .s3m (Screamtracker 3) files which don't.
I have a few non-techno ones, also, including a neat piano track. They don't have to sound synthetic, I think that's just the kind of music that was popular with the mod musicians.
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