What is a .MED file?
MED is a music module from the Amiga tracker of the same name, released in 1989 and renamed OctaMED from 1991.
- Did you know
- OctaMED could play eight channels on the Amiga, twice the hardware’s usual four.
- MED, short for “Music EDitor”, was written for the Amiga by Finnish programmer Teijo Kinnunen and first released in 1989.
- Later OctaMED songs are saved as MMD (“MED MoDule”) files, while the plain MED, MED2, MED3 and MED4 variants trace earlier versions of the editor.
- 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 .MED file
- Drag a .MED 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.