Description:

AdPlug is a free, cross-platform, hardware independent AdLib sound player library, mainly written in C++ and released under the LGPL. AdPlug plays sound data, originally created for the AdLib (OPL2) and Sound Blaster (Dual OPL2/OPL3) audio boards, directly from its original format on top of an emulator or by using the real hardware. No OPL chip is required for playback.

AdPlug itself is just the backend to many different audio player frontends, which are also being developed here. There are plugins for popular audio players, like Winamp and XMMS, as well as stand-alone players for many different systems available.

News:

AdPlay/UNIX 1.9 released 2025-12-21

Tie in with AdPlug 2.4
SDL2 compilation support
Fix a subsong playback corner case
RAW file writer

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlay/UNIX release.

AdPlug core 2.4 released 2025-04-06

Bug fixes:
- Many fixes, cleanup, and refactoring across all players based on fuzzing tests. Huge thanks to Alexander Miller for these. There are too many to list here - please read the commit log.
- Fixes to SurroundOPL getchip(), fixing missing note problems
- Many code typo fixes (thanks to luz paz for these).
- Make SOP player endian aware and many further fixes across players (thanks to Stian Sebastian Skjelstad)
- Fix RAD2 player crashes with files referencing unused instruments
- Added stress tests and many build fixes across platforms (thanks to Stas'M)
New formats:
- MUS,ADL: Add support for Coktel Vision game music files to Visual Composer player (thanks to Stas'M)
- MID: Detect MIDI Type 1 multi-track files (thanks to Stian Sebastian Skjelstad)
- PIS: Beni Tracker (thanks to Dmitry Smagin)
- MTR: Master Tracker Loader (thanks to Dmitry Smagin)
- A2M: Add new player for A2M and A2T (versions 1-14) (thanks to Dmitry Smagin)
- D00: Add support for reheadered D00 songs (thanks to Misty De Méo)
- PLX: PALLADIX Sound System
- LD0: Add support for old LOUDNESS files that don't have MIDI instrument data
Updated NukedOPL to master 730f8c238a152cb3314e46919789a666c9d81d82
Updated ADL player to ScummVM version from Dec 7, 2020

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlug release.

AdPlug core 2.3.3 released 2020-06-10

New RAD player by devinacker
Many bug fixes by Alexander Miller
- CVE-2019-14690 - buffer overflow in .bmf
- CVE-2019-14691 - buffer overflow in .dtm
- CVE-2019-14692 - buffer overflow in .mkj
- CVE-2019-14732 - buffer overflow in .a2m
- CVE-2019-14733 - buffer overflow in .rad
- CVE-2019-14734 - buffer overflow in .mtk
- CVE-2019-15151 - double free and OOB reads in .u6m
- OOB reads in .xad
- OOB reads in .rix

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlug release.

AdPlay/UNIX 1.8.1 released 2020-05-24

Update surround synth and add support for surround NukedOPL

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlay/UNIX release.

AdPlug core 2.3.2 released 2020-05-11

bugfixes

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlug release.

libbinio Version 1.5 released 2019-08-07

use istream->feof() to reliable detect end of file
seek to end of file on memory mapped files made object stuck in EOF.

For download links, please visit GitHub libbinio release.

AdPlug core 2.3.1 released 2018-04-22

Minor fixes to the build system for performance and compatibility
Fix for Linux on more esoteric arches
Add support for SOP version 2 files

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlug release.

AdPlug core 2.3 and AdPlay/UNIX 1.8 released 2017-11-19

Many bugfixes
Preliminary support for HERAD files (*.HSQ *.SQX *.SDB *.AGD *.HA2)
Add support for Easy AdLib 1.0 files (*.BMF)
Add support for Note Sequencer by sopepos fukes (*.SOP)
Add support for Video Game Music (*.VGM *.VGZ)
Add support for SoundFX Macs Opera CMF (*.CMF)
Add support for God of Thunder Music (*.GOT)
Add Nuked OPL3 emulator
Add Woody OPL3 emulator

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlug release and AdPlay/UNIX release.

Continuous integrations with Travis and Appveyor 2016-05-29 - Malvineous

AdPlug now has continuous integration (CI) support! Every time a change is pushed to the git repository, Travis CI will pick it up and compile it under both Linux and OSX, and run the tests to ensure no errors have been introduced. Appveyor will also pick up the change and compile it under Windows.

This means that it will now be much easier to get access to the latest development versions of AdPlug. For those using the Winamp plugin, you can get this "pre-release" version from the GitHub release page.

AdPlug moves to GitHub 2015-06-24 07:30 - AdPlug

AdPlug development has now moved to GitHub! The website is now at https://adplug.github.io and the main repository is at https://github.com/adplug/adplug. AdPlay, the Winamp plugin and other modules are now in separate repositories. See the full list at https://github.com/adplug.

AdPlug core 2.2.1 released 2010-04-06 03:22 - AdPlug

Just a minor release this time, which fixes a couple of bugs and crashes. See the NEWS file for full details.

For download links, please visit GitHub AdPlug release.

AdPlug core 2.2 and AdPlay/UNIX 1.7 released 2010-01-01 10:02 - AdPlug

AdPlug 2.2 brings with it these changes:

Support for JBM Adlib Music Format
Support for new DOSBox .dro format
New (more accurate) CMF player
New surround sound/harmonic synth effect (sure beats mono!)
Various bugfixes in D00, ROL and original DRO players

AdPlay/UNIX v1.7 has also been released:

Default subsong matches file's default subsong
New surround/harmonic synth is now the default
ALSA playback fixes

For download links, please visit SourceForge AdPlug release and AdPlay/UNIX release

Supported formats:

AdPlug implements unique file replayers for each supported audio format in order to achieve the best possible replay quality. Players marked as "preliminary" aren't considered final by the author and may contain many replay issues, but are included for testing purposes anyway. As of now, the following formats are supported:

A2M: AdLib Tracker 2 by subz3ro
ADL: Westwood ADL File Format
AGD: Herbulot AdLib Gold System (HERAD) by Remi Herbulot
AMD: AMUSIC Adlib Tracker by Elyssis
BAM: Bob's Adlib Music Format
BMF: Easy AdLib 1.0 by The Brain
CFF: BoomTracker 4.0 by CUD
CMF: Creative Music File Format by Creative Technology
CMF: SoundFX Macs Opera tracker by Linel
D00: EdLib by Vibrants
DFM: Digital-FM by R.Verhaag
DMO: Twin TrackPlayer by TwinTeam
DRO: DOSBox Raw OPL Format
DTM: DeFy Adlib Tracker by DeFy
GOT: God Of Thunder Music by Roy Davis of Adept Software
HA2: Herbulot AdLib System v2 (HERAD) by Remi Herbulot
HSC: HSC Adlib Composer by Hannes Seifert, HSC-Tracker by Electronic Rats
HSP: HSC Packed by Number Six / Aegis Corp.
HSQ: Herbulot AdLib System (HERAD) by Remi Herbulot
IMF: Apogee IMF File Format
IMS: IMPlay Song Format
JBM: JBM Adlib Music Format
KSM: Ken Silverman's Music Format
LAA: LucasArts AdLib Audio File Format by LucasArts
LDS: LOUDNESS Sound System
M: Origin AdLib Music Format
MAD: Mlat Adlib Tracker
MDI: AdLib MIDIPlay File Format by Ad Lib Inc.
MID: MIDI Audio File Format
MKJ: MKJamz by M \ K Productions (preliminary)
MSC: AdLib MSCplay
MTK: MPU-401 Trakker by SuBZeR0
MUS: AdLib MIDI Music Format by Ad Lib Inc.
RAD: Reality ADlib Tracker by Reality
RAW: RdosPlay RAW file format by RDOS
RIX: Softstar RIX OPL Music Format
ROL: AdLib Visual Composer by AdLib Inc.
S3M: Screamtracker 3 by Future Crew
SA2: Surprise! Adlib Tracker 2 by Surprise! Productions
SAT: Surprise! Adlib Tracker by Surprise! Productions
SCI: Sierra's AdLib Audio File Format
SDB: Herbulot AdLib System (HERAD) by Remi Herbulot
SNG: SNGPlay by BUGSY of OBSESSION
SNG: Faust Music Creator by FAUST
SNG: Adlib Tracker 1.0 by TJ
SOP: Note Sequencer by Lee Ho Bum (sopepos)
SQX: Herbulot AdLib System (HERAD) by Remi Herbulot
PLX: PALLADIX Sound System
VGM: Video Game Music 1.51 by Valley Bell (preliminary)
XAD: eXotic ADlib Format by Riven the Mage
XMS: XMS-Tracker by MaDoKaN/E.S.G
XSM: eXtra Simple Music by Davey W Taylor