An XP app to convert MADI to any other format?

March 29, 2006 12:59 PM

Converting PlayerPro MADI files into something more ubiquitous, such as .IT, or .XM?

PlayerPro was an excellent tracker which is unfortunately Mac-only and saved in its own proprietary MADI format.

I have a number of partially-finished songs that I created in PlayerPro back in my Macintosh days. Currently, I use ModPlugTracker in XP. I had the foresight to convert some of the more promising stuff to .XMs (using PlayerPro itself) when I moved over all my files, but now I want to be able to get at all of the other songs once again.

I've found a MADI player for XP, but so far nothing that will allow me to edit them or convert them to a usable format, short of PlayerPro itself, which I can't run on my XP machine. PlayerPro is currently open-source, but any development on it seems to have been abandoned (too bad, the interface was far easier than any other tracker I've used).

Does anyone know of an app or method which I can use
on my Windows machine to convert these old songs into something I can use?

posted by Durhey to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

does WinAmp play it? (a cursory google search suggests yes, but I can't find anything definite.) you could use the DiskWriter output plugin to play them through and save as WAV files or something. unless you want to continue to work on them or something. (jooc, have you ruled out picking up an older-than-dirt powerpc mac from eBay or something? you can get something old and simple, like a 7500/7600, for under $50 now, and then run PlayerPro on it to convert your files.)
posted by mrg at 1:22 PM on March 29, 2006

Response by poster: I was looking to be able to edit them still. I had considered getting ahold of an older Mac (though I think there is an OSX version of PPro), but it would be far handier to have something that runs in XP.
posted by Durhey at 2:18 PM on March 29, 2006