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Hardware

Yamaha MU2000EX - Excellent for XG file playback. Very good effects, but waveforms are somewhat lacking, especially piano. Example of a good song for this TG: Anything in the XG folder, for example Waxed (authentic version).MID.
Roland SC8850 - Excellent for GM/GS/SC88/SC88Pro/SC8850 file playback, and the hardware that most later DOS and early Windows games were targeted at. Examples of good songs: Anything SC88Pro or SC8850 in this folder, in particular something like galuda_st3_2.MID.
Roland FantomXR - Excellent for GM playback, especially the piano. Example of a good song for this TG: rggza1.mid from Sonic 3D

Program	Description
Apache	Web server
PHP	Scripting language for pages on site
MariaDB	Database for storing song queue, information about songs, etc
Python 3	Backend programming which holds everything together. Fetches songs from queue, sends SysEx to synths, etc. Switched from Perl due to UTF-8 issues on Windows.
KbMedia Player	MIDI player with full support for 32/64 track MIDI files, and good automation support. Also used to fill information in database about detected TG type.
Icecast	Free streaming server.
butt - broadcast using this tool	Realtime streaming from synths to streaming server
HardDiskOgg	Realtime recording to various audio formats, with decent automation support. Feel free to e-mail me if you'd like a recording of a MIDI file on any of my hardware.