Gotracker

What is it?

It's a tracked music player written in Go.

Heucuva needed to learn Go forever ago and figured this was a good way to do it.

Files from/of the following formats/trackers:

For a Windows build, we recommend the following:

Windows 2000 (or newer) - we used Windows 11 Pro (Windows 11 Version 23H2 - 22631.3007)
Visual Studio Code
- Go extension for VSCode v0.19.0 (or newer)
- Go v1.21.5 (or newer)

For a non-Windows (e.g.: Linux) build, we recommend the following:

First, load the project folder in VSCode. If this is the first time you've ever opened a Go project, VSCode will splash up a thousand alerts asking to install various things for Go. Allow it to install them before continuing on.
Next, open a Terminal for powershell.
Enter the following commands
```
go mod download
go build
```
When the command completes, you should now have the gotracker.exe file. Drag an .S3M file on top of it!

NOTE: In order to use PulseAudio, you must have your PULSE_SERVER connection string environment variable configured:

e.g.:
```
PULSE_SERVER=tcp:127.0.0.1:4713
```
(Take note that there are bugs associated with TCP connection strings; see bugs section below) For more information about the PULSE_SERVER environment variable, please see the PulseAudio documentation.

Not well, but it's good enough to play some moderately complex stuff.

Tags	Notes
`windows` `winmm`	Setting the number of channels to more than 2 may cause WinMM and/or Gotracker to do unusual things. You might be able to get a hardware 4-channel capable card (such as the Aureal Vortex 2 AU8830) to work, but driver inconsistencies and weirdnesses in WinMM will undoubtedly cause needless strife.
`pulseaudio`	PulseAudio support is offered through a Pure Go interface originally created by Johann Freymuth, called jfreymuth/pulse. While it seems to work pretty well, it does have some inconsistencies when compared to the FreeDesktop supported C interface. If you see an error about there being a "`missing port in address`" specifically when using a TCP connection string, make sure to append the default port specifier of `:4713` to the end of the `PULSE_SERVER` environment variable.
`windows` `directsound`	DirectSound integration is not great code. It works well enough after recent code changes fixing event support, but it's still pretty ugly.
`flac`	Flac encoding is still very beta.

NOTE: for more known bugs, please check the list from the gotracker/playback library.