Modland
Modland is a very large, and well organised module archive created and maintained by Coma (Daniel Johansson), which contains over 360,000 music modules in 290 different formats. The collection is distributed over FTP from the main site and a few mirrors.
Web Interface
You can find the interface at the Special:Modland page.
Because of the size, navigating the collection can take some time, and looking for a specific file can at times be difficult. To remedy this, ExoticA provides an interface to the collection which allows searching and browsing by filename, author, format and collection. It even allows searching the instrument texts of some formats.
The collection field handles an additional grouping level which some tunes have, and helps to find music from a set, for example the tunes from a game might well be together in a collection.
The search supports the wildcard * for partial matching (apart from the instrument search), for example searching for format: *tracker* will return any formats with the word 'tracker' in the name, or a search for author Coma* would return any authors which start with 'Coma'. The search is not case sensitive.
The instrument search will allow you to search the instrument texts or other information stored inside the modules. Currently Fasttracker, Fasttracker2, Protracker and PlaySID formats are supported. You can also display this information when browsing or viewing search results.
Structure
Because the database is created from a filesystem structure, there are some discrepancies. For example if two different authors have the same directory name in two areas, they will be considered the same author. To avoid confusion, different authors with the same name should be separated through adding country codes to the folder name. If you find two folders which accidentally have the same name, please notify Coma so he can correct it: coma [at] modland.com
Contacting
For questions regarding the collection, please contact Daniel Johansson at coma [at] modland.com. For problems or queries regarding the web interface please contact BuZz at buzz [at] exotica.org.uk
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External Links
- ftp://ftp.modland.com Primary FTP site (For contributing etc)
- ftp://ftp.amigascne.org/pub/mirrors/ftp.modland.com mirror provided by amigascne.org
- ftp://aero.exotica.org.uk/pub/mirrors/modland mirror provided by User:BuZz
