OpenMPT - Discover the music inside...

It's time for the next big OpenMPT release, and OpenMPT 1.24 again brings a great amount of long-awaited new and improved features. Here is a short summary of the most notable new features:

The latest version of OpenMPT has been released today.

This is another bugfix to address bugs found in the previous OpenMPT 1.23 release, and also includes a couple of other improvements. These are the noteworthy improvements and changes in OpenMPT 1.23.05.00:

The latest version of OpenMPT has been released today.

This is mostly a bugfix to address bugs found in the previous OpenMPT 1.23 release, but also brings a few other improvements. These are the noteworthy improvements and changes in OpenMPT 1.23.04.00:

This is just a little bugfix update to yesterday's OpenMPT release that addresses a bug that mostly concerns users that never had any version older than OpenMPT 1.23 installed on their system.

The latest version of OpenMPT has been released today.

This is mostly a bugfix to address new bugs found in the first OpenMPT 1.23 release, but also brings a few other improvements. These are the noteworthy improvements and changes in OpenMPT 1.23.02.00:

The long-awaited release is there! As indicated before, OpenMPT 1.23 brings a great bunch of long-awaited features, including a native 64-bit version! But that's not all... Here is a short summary of the greatest new features:

Ten years ago - on January 24th, 2004, the OpenMPT project was created on SourceForge after Olivier Lapicque opened the source of the original ModPlug Tracker. Since then, a number of people have dedicated their spare time to the OpenMPT project in order to improve the tracker year by year. While development has seen more and less active years, the code base has been constantly growing and a great boost in development has been seen as of late. With the recent release of libopenmpt, an up-to-date, actively maintined and cross-platform module playback library based on the latest ModPlug source code is now available again as well.

Thanks to everyone who has used OpenMPT in the last ten years, and thanks to everyone who actively contributed to it in order to make it an even better music composition tool!

libopenmpt is a BSD-3-clause-licensed, cross-platform C and C++ module playback library. It is based on the player code of the Open ModPlug Tracker project.

Since libmodplug, which is based on an earlier version of the original ModPlug code base, had been released, the code bases of other ModPlug descendants (most notably Schism Tracker and Open ModPlug Tracker) had diverged significantly from the libmodplug code base. libmodplug did, in our opinion, not maintain pace all that well - especially regarding playback accuracy in corner cases.

Over the last year, OpenMPT developers refactored the OpenMPT code base in a way such that a player library can be built separately from the tracker GUI again, as it had been possible with the original ModPlug Tracker source code drop by Olivier Lapicque.

In order to avoid possible future source code fragmentation, libopenmpt is, and will continue to be, developed together with OpenMPT itself in the same source code repository.

libopenmpt comes together with a stand-alone command-line/terminal-based player called openmpt123 as well as player plugins for XMPlay (xmp-openmpt), Winamp (and compatible) (in_openmpt) and foobar2000 (foo_openmpt). A gstreamer plugin, gst-nonstream-audio, is currently in the works at https://github.com/dv1/gst-nonstream-audio. A Debian package is also being worked on.

Get more information at the libopenmpt website at lib.openmpt.org.

The latest version of OpenMPT has been released today.

Well, as it turns out, there were two new bugs in the previous release that should really be fixed quickly. This is a pure bugfix release that doesn't add any new features, so if any of the following bugs affect you, you are advised to upgrade to OpenMPT 1.22.07.00:

The latest version of OpenMPT has been released today.

This release fixes a few bugs introduced in previous versions of OpenMPT 1.22 and also adds several new features and other improvements.

If everything goes well and no new big bugs are found, this will be the last release of OpenMPT 1.22. It's been a somewhat bumpy road since a lot of code has been restructured and rewritten to facilitate the separation of player and tracker code for the upcoming libopenmpt (a new cross-platform module playing library and a replacement for the more or less dead libmodplug), but the important steps have been done, so the number of drastic code chances should decrease again. For the upcoming OpenMPT 1.23, we plan the first official release of a 64-bit version of OpenMPT, completely with our own plugin bridge to simplify usage of 32-bit plugins in a 64-bit OpenMPT and vice versa.

These are the noteworthy improvements and changes in OpenMPT 1.22.06.00: