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decembrt 4th: maxYMiser competition submission deadline
november 30th - december 3rd: Blip Festival in New York
october 28th: The 2nd Piston collage contest submission deadline
spring: Noof's Chiptune Disk submission deadline (mod)
---.--: Chip-on's 1st Chip Disk gathers artists (mod)
---.--: Dissed by the QFS Volume 2 wants your tracks (various)

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19.November 2006: Linking to Modarchive.com's "Recent Uploads" alternative ⇒ hally
19.November 2006: I can t seem to post news properly ⇒ hally
16.November 2006: Linking to Modarchive.com's "Recent Uploads" alternative ⇒ m0d
15.November 2006: noob help ⇒ jsr
15.November 2006: noob help ⇒ blsrect
13.November 2006: Getting those Chiptune/VGM Sounds? ⇒ ale
13.November 2006: goto80 live in barcelona ⇒ ale
12.November 2006: plopbox needs activity ⇒ syphus
12.November 2006: Getting those Chiptune/VGM Sounds? ⇒ flegmatical
11.November 2006: Getting those Chiptune/VGM Sounds? ⇒ Jack

[nov.14th] during these few days our server has been very heavy due to some unknown reason. too long time might be needed for your news/comment post. we are sorry for inconvenience.

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24th. November, 2006

Project AY Updated

category MUS-ARC platform ZX media AY	About "Project AY"⇒[Details][Search news] New and fixed rips from Spectrum and CPC games.
	posted by bcass

SID2WAV for AmigaOS appeared

category SOFTWARE platform C64 media SID	Spot of Up Rough ported SID2WAV to AmigaOS 4.0. It allows you to make WAV audio files from Commodore 64's SID files. Also, Mikeri made sid2mp3: a set of script using SID2WAV to automatically make MP3 files for ringtones.
	posted by hally

MCP-MA7 appeared

category PLAYER platform PHONE media MLD MMF	SMAF Global released a new SMAF(MMF)/MFi(MLD) player for Windows which has playlist feature and MA-7's graphic-contents support. You can play MIDI files and Photo mixer files with the player.
	posted by hally

ATS-MA7-SMAF Ver.1.6.0 released

GoatTracker 1.53 stereo HARDSID released

category SOFTWARE platform C64 media SID	About "GoatTracker"⇒[Details][Search news] About "HardSID"⇒[Details][Search news] Raf released unofficial build of GoatTracker v1 with stereo HardSID support. Changes: hardsid support few more testsongs (eg tiesto - endless wave) -mwindows to get rid of 'dos box' welcome message when hardsid is enabled ;-) The package also includes the latest version of HARDshit.
	posted by hally

Chip Music Review on Argentina's Newspaper

category TOPIC platform VARIOUS media VARIOUS	Clarín, one of the most popular newspaper in Argentina, featured current chip music movement and artists on Nov.17th. According to Neotericz of Gainlad, the article mentioned local acts such as 8GB, Coleco Music and himself, as well as "8bit Operators" project, 8bitpeoples, Atari, Gameboy, Sidstation and Commodore 64.
	posted by hally

Project 2612 updated

category MUS-ARC platform GEN media VGM	About "Project 2612"⇒[Details][Search news] The following Genesis/Megadrive game soundtracks in VGM format were added on Nov.19th: Battlemaster (5 tracks) Nightmare Circus (18 tracks) The Lawnmower Man (7 tracks)
	posted by hally

New example tunes at PSF Central (Lawrence Lin's mirror)

GoatTracker V2.56 released

category SOFTWARE platform C64 media SID	About "GoatTracker"⇒[Details][Search news] New to this version: -Song filename cleared on songdata erase. -Added /F to set custom SID clock frequency. -Graphics output routines no longer compare text screen buffer to previous to find out if it should be updated.
	posted by hex125

Winamp 5.32 released

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New to this version:

Winamp 5.32:
- New: [ml_local] new filters for three pane view (album artist, genre, publisher)
- New: [ml_local] option to rescan metadata for selected files
- New: [ml_transcode] Transcoding tool. Convert your files from one format to another.
- New: [pmp_activesync] Support for Windows Mobile devices
- Improved: send--to in songticker right--click menu
- Improved: [ml_local] album artist, disc, replaygain, composer, full path columns
- Improved: [ml_local] localized dates
- Fixed: classic skin playlist time drawing glitch
- Fixed: slow load--time with playlist of network share files
- Fixed: CD burning with Windows 98/ME
- Fixed: flickering with non--overlay video display
- Fixed: [gen_ml] treeview icons on Windows 98/ME
- Fixed: [gen_ml] modern skin docked toolbar mode not remembered
- Fixed: [gen_ml] listview flicker reduction
- Fixed: [in_flac] crash when viewing info (alt+3) on non--existent files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect length reported with Easy CDDA Extractor encodes
- Fixed: [in_mp4] unable to play truncated M4A files
- Fixed: [in_vorbis] crash with very short files
- Fixed: [jnetlib] HTTP timeouts on streams with character 255 in HTTP headers
- Fixed: [ml_disc] CD View sometimes causing flickering of all open windows
- Fixed: [ml_history] crash when disabling & re--enabling view
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] corrupt display when scrolling
Winamp 5.31:
- New: [in_cdda] CD Text reading support (with sonic engine enabled)
- New: [in_flac] Nullsoft FLAC Decoder
- New: [enc_flac] Nullsoft FLAC Encoder
- Improved: [ml_disc] Smarter tagging when ripping tracks
- Improved: [in_cdda] Better CD metadata
- Improved: [in_mp3] support for reading ID3v2.4 per--frame unsynchronization
- Improved: [in_mp4] HTTP streaming support
- Improved: [in_wave] HTTP streaming support
- Improved: [in_wm] follows 24bit/mono/surround playback setting
- Fixed: loading folders via playlists
- Fixed: Shortcut icons for multi--user installations
- Fixed: Thinger icons for old wa3 skins (filereader.w5s missing)
- Fixed: truncated text in version history
- Fixed: handling of shortcuts in folders
- Fixed: [dsp_sps] simple pitch and tempo preset (thanks ujay)
- Fixed: [gen_ff] System.playFile not working on URLs
- Fixed: [in_mp3] seek from end of file
- Fixed: [in_mp3] quality issue
- Fixed: [in_mp3] random crash when writing ID3v2 tag
- Fixed: [in_mp3] incorrect track length on concatenated MP3 files
- Fixed: [in_mp3] gapless glitch
- Fixed: [in_mp3] maximum number of redirects raised to 3 to allow playback on some podcasts with crazy php scripts
- Fixed: [in_mp3] lyrics3 security vulnerability (thanks iDefense)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] ultravox security vulnerability (thanks iDefense)
- Fixed: [in_mp3] seek problems on files with multiple id3v2 tags
- Fixed: [ml_disc] ripping discs with international titles
- Fixed: [ml_local] breaks 'always on top' for other programs
- Fixed: [ml_local] 'Use Library title information for Playlist Item Formatting' not being followed
- Fixed: [ml_local] track number showing as 4294967295 in title
- Fixed: [ml_playlists] memory leak
- Fixed: [ml_pmp/pmp_ipod/pmp_usb] 'no disc in drive' error message
- Fixed: [out_ds] logarithmic/hybrid volume control
- Fixed: [pmp_p4s] crash on 0--length tracks
- Fixed: [pmp_usb] bad xml writing

posted by hex125


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