S3M to OGG

Convert S3M to OGG Format

1. Download OGG MP3 Converter from the following link (1.03 MB), and install the software by instructions

Link: http://www.ogg-mp3.net/download/oggmp3_converter.exe


2. Launch OGG MP3 Converter
3. Choose S3M Files



Click "Add Files" button to choose S3M files and add them to conversion list.


Choose one or more S3M files you want to convert and then click "Open".


4. Convert S3M to OGG



Click "Convert to OGG" button to convert all files into OGG format.


The software is converting S3M to OGG format.


5. Play & Browse



Right-click converted item and choose "Play Destination" to play the destination file, choose "Browse Destination Folder" to open Windows Explorer to browse the destination file.


6. Done

What is S3M?
The S3M format is an advanced module format, and is the successor to the STM format used by the original Scream Tracker. Both formats are based on the original MOD format used on the Commodore Amiga computer.

The S3M format has many differences compared to its predecessors.

• The format is a hybrid of digital playback and synthesized instruments. The official format specification document covers space for 16 digital channels and 14 synthesized ones with two unused slots out of a total of 32.
• Separate volume channel in pattern data.
• Supports more instruments than MOD or STM (99 instead of 31).
• Default panning of channels can be specified by the composer.
• Extra-fine pitch slides are added
• Instruments are not limited to a fixed sample rate for a given note. The format stores the instrument's sample rate at middle C.

The period table used by S3M is smaller than the one used by the MOD format (only 12 entries, compared to between 36 and 60 for the MOD variations) and uses larger values in order to be able to compute the extra-fine pitch slides. The playback routines, however, use relatively straightfoward formulas to get the final period values used in playback. The key formula for this takes into account the instrument's stored sample rate at middle C.

What is OGG?
Ogg Vorbis (sometimes just called Vorbis) is an open source patent-free audio compression format, developed as a replacement for proprietary digital audio encoding formats, such as MP3, VQF, and AAC. Vorbis files (which have an .ogg extension) compress to a smaller size than MP3 files, which reduces bandwidth and storage requirements. According to many reports, Vorbis provides better sound quality than MP3.

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