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+# xm.js
+
+FastTracker 2 .XM player, written for fun.
+
+[Demo](http://www.a1k0n.net/code/jsxm/) [warning: plays sound immediately on
+load]
+
+It only plays one .XM: "my dirty old kamel" by Alexander Bulér aka
+[Zalza](http://zalza.bandcamp.com/). I love this tune, and wrote this code just
+to play it.
+
+It is fairly feature-complete, but is missing a bunch of effects.
+
+MIT license.