XMMS-SID

XMMS-SID is Free Software licensed and distributed under GNU General Public License v2.

Introduction

XMMS-SID is a plugin for XMMS for playing music that is commonly referred as "SID-tunes" aka music from Commodore 64 computer and it's close relatives. For the actual emulation/playing, XMMS-SID can utilize several emulator engines.

Some features of XMMS-SID:

Screenshots

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XMMS with some SID-tunes in playlist with file information window opened
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The new about-dialog
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Audio settings
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Emulation parameters #1
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Emulation parameters #2
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Playtime and song-length database settings
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STIL-database and titlestring settings
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Sub-tune control-, automatic sub-tune changer- and miscellaneous options

Download

XMMS-SID is Free Software licensed and distributed under GNU General Public License 2.

Current release v0.9.2:

File GPG signature
xmms-sid-0.9.2.tar.xz [sig]
xmms-sid-0.9.2.tar.bz2 [sig]

To verify the GnuPG/PGP signatures:

XMMS-SID Mercurial repository

Latest development version can always be found in the public read-only Mercurial (hg) repository.

XMMS-SID compatible libSIDPlay sources:

Most Linux-distributions and BSDs should have working SIDPlay library packages, but those may also be out of date. In those cases, the links below may be of help.

Useful links

For using XMMS-SID, you need at least one emulator library. Additionally, you need XMMS v1.2.10 or later. Also, you'll probably want some SID-tunes to listen to if you already don't have them.