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| Posted by: sokol on 2010-07-02 22:36:04 Greetings. Does anyone remember this shareware MOD Music tracker application? It was my favorite for the Mac, and I'd love to find a working copy somewhere. Google has been fruitless so far... :-/ The original developer, Antoine Rosett, open sourced it a while back. But the version he released was all PowerPC code, and thus useless to me. I have a fat version here (4.5.5), but it refuses to work on my Quadra 700. If anyone has any 68K versions, I would appreciate it immensely. | |
| Posted by: CJ_Miller on 2010-07-03 20:35:51 I do remember PlayerPro! I used it, with some degree of success, to listen to some MODs a friend made. I didn't know that it was around back in the 68k days. I have several versions archived around here somewhere, but I think they are 5.7-5.9, probably not 68k. If will look for any older versions I may have here. | |
| Posted by: sokol on 2010-07-03 22:54:06 I used it in the late 90s (being a bit poor and not a fan of Windows, my 68k days were until 2003), and I've seen various postings saying there were versions from around late-94ish. Any 68k Tracker/MOD software would be awesome. I've had very little luck getting anything working on my Quadra. For now I'm blaming it on A/UX, which is quirky beyond belief. | |
| Posted by: mulholland on 2010-08-07 04:00:41 Feel free to PM me if anyone is interested in 4.5.8, 4.5.9, and 5.9. (That's all i have on hand.) I know Antoine Rosett is still around and doing his thing. For the past few years, he's been working on a piece of software called Osirix. You might be able to track him down through the Osirix webpage and see if he could be of any help. | |
| Posted by: papa_november on 2011-08-14 21:27:57 5.2 is supposed to be the last 68K version, and I can't find evidence of it anywhere. Surely it must exist on some disk somewhere? | |
| Posted by: bittin on 2011-08-17 06:11:14 i have a version somewhere at home, can upload it here later if you want? | |
| Posted by: dankcomputing on 2025-12-25 12:47:11 The freeware versions of 5.2 and 5.1 appear to be hosted here. Should probably mirror them as they weren't easy to find. The non-freeware 5.2 remains elusive. | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2025-12-25 12:52:04I am also looking for this. It's not uploaded in any of the usual places.https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/playerpro-4 | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2025-12-25 12:59:00The freeware versions of 5.2 and 5.1 appear to be hosted here. Should probably mirror them as they weren't easy to find. The non-freeware 5.2 remains elusive. PlayerPro music editor and SoundTracker - Browse Files at SourceForge.netPlay SoundTracker media on your computer.
sourceforge.net
There the versions I can link to... Slightly thrown by you editing your post after my first response so that you're now making more specific requests. I think I've seen 5.2... might be in the giant Audio archive... Nope, https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/ppc-audio-software-os7-osx58-some-68k-apps just hast lots of 4.5.x variants and 5.9 freeware. | |
Posted by: SkippRnim on 2026-02-04 18:19:20Does anyone remember this shareware MOD Music tracker application? It was my favorite for the Mac, and I'd love to find a working copy somewhere. Google has been fruitless so far... :-/ The original developer, Antoine Rosett, open sourced it a while back. But the version he released was all PowerPC code, and thus useless to me. I have a fat version here (4.5.5), but it refuses to work on my Quadra 700.I did buy a license to this software… wonder if I still have it… probably. When/if I find it I'll let you know. | |
| Posted by: SkippRnim on 2026-02-04 18:49:29 Found it. What's the procedure for sharing these kind of things? Is it allowed, not?    | |
| Posted by: SkippRnim on 2026-02-04 18:53:08 What the hell(o)? I guess it's in a format that my Apple Silicon can't read. When I get my Luxo iMac set up, I will try. The disc is in perfect condition, so I'm thinking that it's in HFS format instead of HFS+? But yeah, what's the policy for sharing these here? OP, I don't know what version is on the disc yet, I'll let you know if it is 4.5.5 or not. But the back does say it supports System 7 or later with a 68020, so I would think that it would work for you. If I can get it mounted…  | |
| Posted by: SkippRnim on 2026-02-04 20:58:30 I've put it in my iMac running MacOS X 10.4… I don't even get any message, just doesn't see it at all. Do I just have a fancy coaster? The CD seems to look fine, always in the jewel case. CD rot? I don't know if I have a SCSI cd player. Anyone have any suggestions? I'm so bummed. Maybe one of my HD has an installed version of it. | |
| Posted by: SkippRnim on 2026-02-04 22:12:18 The Luxo's Superdrive was dirty. It wasn't reading any disc at all. Good thing I had a Maxell DVD cleaner. I got the disc mounted. Making a disc image of it now. The full disc image is 426 MB, so think it's too big to attach. Is there a recommended place for uploading this kind of stuff? I just realized that the OP hasn't been here since 2010. Oh well, at least I got the software working. | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2026-02-04 23:12:00 Upload to Macintosh Garden, thanks! One of the best music/playback programs for Classic OS. | |
Posted by: Phipli on 2026-02-04 23:44:53The full disc image is 426 MB, so think it's too big to attach. Upload to Macintosh Garden, thanks! One of the best music/playback programs for Classic OS.Yup, uploading to macintosh garden is the usual answer. You'd want this page : PlayerPRO 4 - Macintosh GardenThe incredibly awesome PlayerPRO by Antoine Rosset. Version 4.5. PlayerPRO is a complete music editing program (SoundTracker). PlayerPRO can load and play many music (and sound) formats. Version 4.5 contains the awesome 'Screensaver' and 'Full View' video modes.
Note... 1. Upload as an uncompressed disk image, preferably an ISO, or bin+cue if it has a data and an audio session or independent Mac and PC sessions. 2. The upload UI doesn't give much feedback and is a bit worrying for larger uploads, just set it going and leave it for 20 minutes, it should be fine. | |
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