What is it?

UNIX port of Open Cubic Player, which is a text-based player with some few graphical views. Visual output can be done through nCurses, Linux console (VCSA + FrameBuffer), X11 or SDL/SDL2. It can be compiled on various different unix based operating systems.

What can it play?

Amiga style modules files with more:

• *.AMS, Velvet Studio
• *.DMF, X-Tracker
• *.IT, Impulse Tracker or use the modern Schism Tracker
• *.MDL, DigiTrakker, now developed as MilkyTracker
• *.MOD, ProTracker or use the modern ProTracker Clone
• *.MTM, MultiTracker Module Editor
• *.NST, NoiseTracker
• *.OKT, Oktalyzer
• *.PTM, PolyTracker
• *.STM, Scream Tracker 2
• *.S3M, Scream Tracker 3
• *.ULT, Ultra Tracker
• *.WOW, Grave Composer
• *.XM, FastTracker 2 or use the modern FastTracker 2 Clone
• *.669, Composer 669

Code from STYMulator to play music from Atari ST (Yamaha YM2149):

• *.YM

Fork of libsidplayfp to play music from C64 (SID 6581/8580):

• *.SID

Code from aylet to play music from ZX Spectrum/Amstrad CPC (Yamaha YM2149):

• *.AY

Audio Files (both compressed and PCM styled):

• *.WAV
• *.OGG
• *.FLAC
• *.MP2
• *.MP3

Audio CDs: Linux support only, using digital read out API

• *.CDA

Fork of TiMidity++ is used to play MIDI:

• *.MID

AdPlug can read a wide range of music formats designed for the OPL2/OPL3 Adlib sound chip. Examples:

• *.HSC
• *.SNG
• *.D00
• *.ADL
• *.VGM
• *.RAD Reality Adlib Tracker

HivelyTracker tracked music, using code from the original tracker repository:

• *.HVL Hively Tracker
• *.AHX

Manual Page

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/opencubicplayer/ocp.1.en.html

Usage

escesc: exit the program

alt + k: List the available keyshort-cuts in the current view

While playing

Note: if letters are capital, press them with shift

Enter: next file from the playlist, if playlist is empty it opens the file-browser

f: File-browser

a: Text FFT analyzer, A: toggle FFT analyzer, tab, toggle colors

c: Text Channel viewer

t: Text Track viewer

g: Lo-Res FFT analyzer + history G: High-Res FFT analyzer + history

b: Phase viewer

o: Oscilloscope

v: Peak power level

m: Volume control

x / alt + x: Extended mode / normal mode toggle

Backspace: Toggle filter

f1: Online Help

f2: Lower Volume

f3: Increase Volume

f4: Toggle Surround

f5: Panning left

f6: Panning right

f7: Balance left

f8: Balance right

f9: Decrease playback speed

f10: Increase playback speed

\: Toggle pitch/speed lock (if fileformat makes this possible)

f11: Decrease playback pitch

f12: Increase playback pitch

File browser

alt + e: Edit meta-information

alt + i: Toggle file-list columns (long filename, title, etc.)

alt + c: Opens a system options list

Insert: Add to playlist

Delete: Remove from playlist

Tab: Move cursor between filelist and playlist

Original

https://www.cubic.org/player/

Installing binaries on Linux

https://repology.org/project/ocp-open-cubic-player/versions

Installing on macOS

brew install ocp

more notes about Darwin

If you use liboss, you might need to edit /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/liboss.pc and remove -Wno-precomp (liboss 0.0.1 is known to be broken and crashes, so I discourage the use of liboss)

To configure Darwin, my experience is that you need to run configure like this:

PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include CXXFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include CPPCXXFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include ./configure

and optionally add things like --prefix etc.

To get curses up and running with colors, you need to run ocp like this

TERM=xterm-color ocp-curses

Sample sources of where to find music

https://modarchive.org/

http://www.chiptune.com/

http://www.keygenmusic.net/

https://ftp.hornet.org/pub/demos/music/contests/