What is a .MED file?
MED is a music module from the Amiga’s OctaMED tracker.
- Did you know
- OctaMED could play eight channels on the Amiga, twice the hardware’s usual four.
- MED, short for “Music EDitor”, was written for the Amiga by Finnish programmer Teijo Kinnunen and first released in 1989.
- Later OctaMED songs are saved as MMD (“MED MoDule”) files, while the plain MED, MED2, MED3 and MED4 variants trace earlier versions of the editor.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify many more audio formats: lossless/hi-res codecs (Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, TAK, True Audio, DSD/SACD, Musepack), pro containers (Core Audio, RF64/BW64, Wave64, Sun AU, Broadcast Wave with timecode), speech/mobile (Speex, AMR-WB, QCP, 3GA, M4R, GSM), MPEG Layer I/II, instrument banks (SoundFont, SFZ, DLS, RIFF MIDI, GigaStudio), ringtones (RTTTL, iMelody, SAP), tracker modules (MOD, XM, IT, S3M, OctaMED, 669, Oktalyzer), chiptunes (NES NSF, SNES SPC, VGM, Game Boy GBS, AY, YM) and Audacity projects.
- Depth of analysis
- .MED is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .MED file
- Drag a .MED file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.