So what is a MOD, you ask? Well, it is a general term given to music with multiple file extensions. Confused? Well, here's the annotated story:

    A while back, computers had either no sound cards, or a sound chip that wasn't capable of very much. Some computers, such as the Amiga, were able to use sampled sounds, and through the use of a program that changed variables such as the length of the sample, the pitch, etc., play back the samples, with up to four tracks. This was a very big step in music. In a day where most music on the computer was in MIDI format, these songs could use use "real" instruments. These types of files were called MOD (short for module) files. A true .mod has only four tracks, but now, the term is used to describe all files that use manipulated samples. There are many formats now, some of which include: s3m, xm, it, and psm.

    So now you might be thinking that's all nice, but what do you play them with? Well, there are many options, some of them free, some, well, not. Here are my recommendations:

The color scheme of the display can be changed, as well as file associations, quality of playback, and many other things. Perhaps the nicest feature of this player is that it can create a .wav file of the MOD, which you can later convert to an .mp3.  But don't be surprised if your .mp3 is way bigger than the module itself. MODs pack a lot a music into a small file size.

The Winamp of now is much better than the Winamp of a year or two ago. This player is adequate for MODs, but it can not play compressed files, and the sound quality isn't as great, mostly because this player wasn't designed with MODs in mind. Also, it has a tendency to crash when playing MODs, but not nearly as bad as it used to. The nice thing about this player is that unlike MODPlug, this will play most other audio formats except for certain types of Windows Media, but plug-ins are always being developed.