SoundTracker (Unix)

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SoundTracker
Original author Michael Krause
Stable release
1.0.5 / March 17, 2024;22 months ago (2024-03-17)
Repository sourceforge.net/p/soundtracker/git/ci/master/tree/
Written in C
Operating system X11/Unix
Type Tracker
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website www.soundtracker.org

SoundTracker is a free music tracker for Unix-like operating systems running the X Window System, used for composing music saved in module files.

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Description

Its name is a tribute to the 1987 Amiga program Ultimate Soundtracker which is regarded as the first program of this type, while its user interface mostly resembles and indeed functionally mimics Fast Tracker, [1] one of many popular MS-DOS-based audio trackers, supporting saving in its file formats. It generally renders playback using the OpenCP (à la Cubic Player) engine. Initially SoundTracker had used GTK+ (version 1) as its widget toolkit, modern versions (since 1.0.0) use GTK+ 2. For many years, SoundTracker was one of the very few mature audio trackers available for Unix-like operating systems.

References

  1. Matsuoka, Claudio (2007-11-04). "Tracker History Graphing Project". helllabs.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2011-01-29.