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  • Adding AY Files To The Game Music Website

    1er décembre 2013, par Multimedia Mike — General

    For the first time since I launched the site in the summer of last year, I finally added support for new systems for my Game Music Appreciation site : A set of chiptune music files which bear the file extension AY. These files come from games that were on the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC computer systems.


    ZX Spectrum Amstrad CPC

    Right now, there are over 650 ZX Spectrum games in the site while there are all of 20 Amstrad CPC games. The latter system seems a bit short-changed, but I read that a lot of Amstrad games were straight ports from the Spectrum anyway since the systems possessed assorted similarities. This might help explain the discrepancy.

    Technically
    The AY corpus has always been low hanging fruit due to the fact that the site already supports the format courtesy of the game-music-emu backend. The thing that blocked me was that I didn’t know much about these systems. I knew that there were 2 systems (and possibly more) that shared the same chiptune format. Apparently, these machines were big in Europe (I was only vaguely aware of them before I started this project).

    Both the Spectrum and the Amstrad used Zilog Z-80 CPUs for computing and created music using a General Instruments synthesizer chip designated AY-3-8912, hence the chiptune file extension AY. This has 3 channels similar to the C64 SID chip. Additionally, there’s a fourth channel that game music emu calls “beeper” (and which Wikipedia describes as “one channel with 10 octaves”). Per my listening, it seems similar to the old PC speaker/honker. The metadata for a lot of the songs will specify either (AY) or (Beeper).

    Wrangling Metadata
    Large collections of AY files are easy to find ; as is typical for pure chiptunes, the files are incredibly small.

    As usual, the hardest part of the whole process was munging metadata. There seems to be 2 slightly different conventions for AY metadata, likely from 2 different people doing the bulk of the work and releasing the fruits of their labor into the wild. After I recognized the subtle differences between the 2 formats, it was straightforward to craft a tool to perform most of the work, leaving only a minimum of cleanup effort required afterwards.

    (As an aside, I think this process is called extract – transform – load, or ETL. Sounds fancy and complicated, yet it’s technically one of the first computer programming tasks I was ever paid to perform.)

    Collateral Damage
    While pushing this feature, I managed to break the site’s search engine. The search solution I developed was always sketchy (involving compiling a C program as a static binary CGI script and trusting it to run on the server). I will probably need to find a better approach, preferably sooner than later.

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