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from: ANDREAS KOHLBACH
date: 2015-02-09 08:57:00
subject: Re: The Sidplayer Channel

   
   
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Tristan Miller wrote on 08. February 2015:
>
> In article , Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>> and most modern media players cannot play Sidplayer files.  The only
>>> modern player I'm aware of that plays Sidplayer music is sidplayfp, but
>>> even it has problems with about half the tunes I try.
>> 
>> There is VLC I mentioned.
>>
>> I would assume most everybody has installed by now, because it plays
>> about every media format available and is open source. Since version 2.0
>> (that came out in 2012) it also plays SIDs.
>
> VLC does not currently play Sidplayer files, nor has it ever been able to 
> do so.
>
> As I mentioned before, you are confusing Sidplayer with the SID format used 
> by the HVSC.  Sidplayer was a particular Commodore 64/128 music editor and 
> player authored by Craig Chamberlain and Harry Bratt in 1985 and published 
> by COMPUTE! Books.

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Ah, okay. I might have confused it then. Sorry.
-- 
Andreas

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