The PowerPlayer Music Cruncher
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PMC has been developed to crunch modules only and I think that it does its
job very good. It beats the compression-ratio of _EVERY_ known cruncher/archiver
on the AMIGA and it is very fast when crunching & decrunching.

I have developed the new "SFCD" (Stephan Fuhrmanns Compact Density) mode
which is based upon the old "SFHD" (Stephan Fuhrmanns High Density) mode.
To crunch/decrunch "SFCD"/"SFHD" type modules you require Lh.Library v1.8+.

MOD.TEST	|UNCRUNCHED	|SFCD	|SFHD	|POWERPACKER
----------------+---------------+-------+-------+-----------
SIZE (bytes)	|320044		|189734	|210540	|237832
SUCCESS		|00%		|40%	|34%	|25%
CRUNCHTIME	|0:00		|2:37	|2:47	|2:58
DECRUNCHTIME	|0:00		|0:17	|0:17	|0:07

Using PMC is rather simple:

PMC [SOURCENAME] [DESTNAME]

PMC will load [SOURCENAME], crunch it (or decrunch, if already crunched)
and save it as [DESTNAME].

Another possibility is to specify only one filename. PMC will read the
file you specified, crunch/decrunch it and will overwrite the old file:

PMC [FILENAME]

With this method PMC is able to work with CBM's SPat.

PMC writes "SFCD" type modules only, but it can read & decrunch "SFCD" and
"SFHD" type modules.

PowerPlayer reads & decrunches "SFCD" & "SFHD" type modules automatically
if the Lh.Library is in your Libs: directory.

I have seen some guys loading up modules on BBSs in the PMC-format.
PLEASE use '.PMC' as suffix and note that they need PowerPlayer to replay.
AND check the BBS wether there's PowerPlayer existing or not, they
won't be very happy if they download the stuff and don't find the
PowerPlayer !

An example BBS-entry could look like this:
SONG.PMC	Very good module, use PowerPlayer to replay

I recommend uploading the modules in the PMC-format without unimportant
'trash' in an archive. You don't have to decrunch manually, the file
needs less diskspace (it's still crunched) and there's last but not least
the PMC-format that has been developed ONLY for the PowerPlayer, so you
_NEED_ the PowerPlayer to decrunch ß-} !  By doing this you can show your
consent to the PowerPlayer!