acidcat . file format A.P.B.
WANTED
rare, vintage & weird file-format specimens
dead or alive · compressed or raw
acidcat dissects the raw byte structure of audio and preset formats to see what wrote a file and flag what is hidden. We are always hunting for obscure audio file formats.
vintage hardware sampler savesAkai MPC and S-series, E-mu, Ensoniq, Roland, anything that wrote to floppy, SCSI, or CompactFlash. ⚑ the Akai MPC bounty →
formats acidcat does not know yetobscure trackers, oddball synth presets, forgotten DAW project files, dead sample libraries.
malformed & polyglot filesa WAV that is also a ZIP, a preset with trailing junk, a truncated header, anything that breaks a naive parser.
Send rare and obscure files to
killengn77@gmail.com, or discuss on
github.