mitsuman/mdx2wav

mdx2wav

mdx2wav is a converter to make raw pcm data from MDX file on Linux.

MDX is a major sound format of Sharp X68000 in the 1990s.

Usage

mdx2wav dumps 16bit stereo 44.1kHz pcm data to stdout, so you need to use it with other commands.

To Play now,

mdx2wav xxx.mdx | aplay -f cd

To convert to other format,

mdx2wav xxx.mdx | ffmpeg -f s16le -ar 44.1k -ac 2 -i - xxx.wav
mdx2wav xxx.mdx | ffmpeg -f s16le -ar 44.1k -ac 2 -i - -ab 192 -f ogg file.ogg

Options

  -d <sec>  : limit song duration. 0 means nolimit. (default:300)
  -e <type> : set ym2151 emulation type, fmgen or mame. (default:fmgen)
  -f        : enable fadeout.
  -l <loop> : set loop limit. (default:2)
  -m        : measure play time as sec.
  -r <rate> : set sampling rate. (default:44100)
  -t        : get song title (charset is SHIFT-JIS).
              if you need other charset, try following command:
               mdx2wav -t xxx.mdx | iconv -f SHIFT-JIS -t utf-8
  -v        : print version.
  -V        : verbose, write debug log to stderr.

Build

git clone https://github.com/mitsuman/mdx2wav.git
cd mdx2wav
mkdir Release
cd Release
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make

mdx2wav's Issues

frequency problem perhaps

I tried this library and noticed that no matter which frequency I select, the output sounds the same always. It sounds like 22050Hz all the time. For the comparison I used BouKichi library and the difference is quite noticeable.