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The Mod Archive is a website that archives and lists music module files. Users can make charts, reviews and ratings of them.
MOD, IT, XM, AHX, MED, STM, S3M, MO3, MTM, 669, AMF, AMS, DBM, DIGI, DMF, DSM, FAR, GDM, IMF, J2B, MDL, MPTM, MT2, OKT, PLM, PTM, STM, ULT and HVL files are accepted.
History
The Mod Archive was started in 1996 for tracker musicians to share their work.[1]
A forum was added in 2000. The website was less maintained from about 2004, and was redesigned from November 2005 until ending private beta in August 2006. The website's popularity now required many resources, so in 2007, it stopped being sponsored and was moved to dedicated hardware, which is so expensive the community is asked to pay the running costs.[1]
Since 2006, it has been possible to download multiple files at once using BitTorrent.
Operations and quality control
Users upload files, which the website's staff check for integrity and quality.
Mentions in publications
ModArchive was mentioned in the PC music freeware roundup in Sound on Sound magazine.[2]
ModArchive (v3.1) was featured as Site of the Month in Computer Music magazine.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Mod Archive (2007). "About". Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ↑ Walker, Martin (July 2014). "PC Music Freeware Roundup". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
- ↑ "Site of the Month". Computer Music. Future Publishing Ltd (114). July 2007.