{"id":1652,"date":"2009-07-17T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2009-07-23T13:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:49:19","slug":"renoise-xrns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/renoise-xrns\/","title":{"rendered":"Renoise XRNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little piece of me died today when I read of the existence of XRNS<\/a>, a music tracker format that uses XML<\/a>. A music tracker format that uses XML!<\/em> Can you imagine? If you can’t, Google for “filetype:xrns” to find plenty of samples.<\/p>\n

[xml]
\n< ?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
\n
\n
\n 4<\/octave>
\n 1<\/editstep>
\n false<\/loopplay>
\n 4<\/loopcoeff>
\n 96<\/loopstart>
\n 123<\/beatspermin>
\n 3<\/ticksperline>
\n true<\/shuffleisactive>
\n
\n 36<\/shuffleamount>
\n 68<\/shuffleamount>
\n 67<\/shuffleamount>
\n 47<\/shuffleamount>
\n <\/shuffleamounts>
\n Untitled<\/songname>
\n By Somebody<\/artist>
\n…
\n <\/globalsongdata>
\n…
\n<\/renoisesong>
\n[\/xml]
\nAnd on it goes. It’s difficult to articulate why this feels so heretical. It’s like those old MOD\/tracker formats were designed to be so pure<\/em>, so efficient. This completely destroys that. Now your playback engine has to carry the baggage of a full XML parsing library.<\/p>\n

There are elements of the FFmpeg<\/a> development team that would enjoy seeing the program grow to be able to handle all the various tracker-type formats<\/a> (myself included, obviously). It’s not going to be pretty when XRNS collides with FFmpeg.<\/p>\n

Addendum:<\/strong> Share the love over on the Renoise forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XML is even moving to take over the music tracker space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t