Analyse a .IMS file

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What is a .IMS file?

IMS is the module format of the Images Music System, an Amiga music program of the Soundtracker generation. The extension is also used by Bitplane Imaris for microscopy images.

Did you know
  • IMS is close enough to the original Soundtracker layout that it is often mistaken for a plain .mod by tools that only check the extension.
  • Analyser handles .IMS alongside related formats such as .MOD, .XM, .IT and more.
  • In Analyser's format library, .IMS sits in the System & disk category.
What Analyser shows you
Play and analyse tracker modules - MOD, XM, IT, S3M and around sixty relatives from the demoscene and the Amiga and DOS eras. A module is not recorded audio: it is a bank of instrument samples plus a pattern score saying which sample to trigger, on which channel, at which row, so playing one means running a tracker engine. Analyser renders the song on your device with libopenmpt - the engine behind OpenMPT - and then treats the result like any other audio, so you get the full Sound section: waveform, spectrogram, transport, loudness, key and BPM. Above it sits the module itself - the tracker that wrote it, the channel, pattern and order counts, the song message, and the sample and instrument name lists, which is traditionally where authors left their greetings. The rendered song can be saved as a WAV.
Open a .IMS file
Drag a .IMS file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.
Related formats
.MOD · .XM · .IT · .S3M · .MPTM · .MTM · .STM · .669 · .667 · .FAR · .OKT · .MED · .UMX · .MO3 · .AMS · .C67 · .DBM · .DIGI and more. See all supported file types.