Open Source MS-DOS Music Players

MMC is a commander-style media player for Windows, with native, hw accelerated video playing and translucent gui. Mpxplay is a console audio player for DOS and Win32 operating systems. x264vfw, x265vfw and xAV1vfw are video for windows encoder and decoder codecs, useful with VirtualDub.

Mikmod is a module player and library supporting many formats, including mod, s3m, it, and xm. Originally a player for MS-DOS, MikMod has been ported to other platforms, such as Unix, Macintosh, BeOS, and Java(!!)

AdPlug is a cross-platform OPL2 audio player library. AdPlug plays music, originally composed for the AdLib (OPL2) audio board, on top of an OPL2 emulator or by using the real hardware. There are multiple player software interfaces available.

IMYplay is a player for iMelody (IMY) ringtones / files (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMelody). IMYplay can use the following outputs to produce sound: 1. The Allegro game library (http://alleg.sf.net), 2. SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer; http://www.libsdl.org), 3. ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture; http://alsa-project.org), 4. OSS (Open Sound System), 5. Libao (http://xiph.org/ao), 6. PortAudiov19 (http://www.portaudio.com), 7. PulseAudio (http://www.pulseaudio.org), 8. JACK1/JACK2 (http://jackaudio.org), 9. GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org), 10. PC-Speaker (at least Linux and DOS). It can also: - convert IMY ringtones to MIDI files, - convert IMY ringtones to WAV files, - write raw samples to an output file, - execute an external program on each note. See the project homepage https://imyplay.sourceforge.io and the project Wiki in the menu above.

PSID64 is a program that converts PSID and RSID files into C64 executables. This allows users to play PSID and RSID files (originally used by the PlaySID program) on a real Commodore 64 computer or emulator such as VICE.

Cross-platform. Very smooth sound. Works with or without Allegro. Current releases play IT/XM/S3M/MOD. In the future: create DUHs. Main advantage over IT: design your own filters, synthesis and more! Click 'Home Page' above for details.

Nosefart plays NSF (NES sound format) files so you can listen to those old tunes without actually having to play the games. It runs in Linux, DOS/Windows, and as a plugin to various players, including Winamp and XMMS. It was mostly written by Matt Co

NovaX is a set of programs that is being devloped for small company's and beginners in the fields of HTML and programming. Coded in Python and C++, this is also a good replacement for MS Office. NOTE: This requires Python to be on your PC. ( Python.org )

Dossap is SAP file player for DOS based on ASAP library.

J Sound System aims to become a multi-platform, API portable sound system for Free Pascal programs written in object-oriented Pascal and i386 assembler.

Batch file front end for playing media files with your favorite player (Like mplayer) Designed to allow for a "ten foot" interface and all navigation done with a number pad.

Very good multimedia player for DOS Standard version - works in text mode,supports: OGG,MP3,WAV,MID,MOD,XM,S3M,IT,CD audio and so on... Now avaiable: GUI version! (using CGUI) Now supports WAV MP3 and OGG in nearly proper way ;)

Drum machine compiler, generic music sequencer and mixer: Write or generate drum and tone patterns in a simple programming language. Mix it using the sample assembler (asampler). Renders to files or plays real-time. Very portable. Works on old hardware.