Last modified: 2011-04-14 15:12:33 UTC
These are popular tracker formats [[Tracker (music software)]] which we could potentially support. This should be supported because they are akin to source code. If we want to be maximally-editable, then we should allow the files to be uploaded directly, like we do with SVG. My best information is that these formats should not be patent-encumbered, are FLOSS of one variety of another, however there may be limited capability for verifying the files are safe. For playback, we can use ModPlug-XMMS (http://modplug-xmms.sourceforge.net/) to convert to Ogg Theora and use pre-existing facilities for serving that.
http://www.un4seen.com/bassmod.html might be useful too
I'm making this depend on bug 17012 (system to cleanly attach source files to uploaded media); before we go adding lots more media types we really want to be able to handle the resulting file linkages in a clearer way. (Similar handling for .mid files would probably be good, but they've been in the list since time immemorial so get a pass for now...)
(In reply to comment #2) > (Similar handling for .mid files would probably be good, but they've been in > the list since time immemorial so get a pass for now...) > Are those free enough for us? I thought there was all kinds of hideous patent stuff... but I might be thinking of other stuff.
