ScreamTracker
Ranked 3 of 3 music trackers by recommenders
People recommend it as a nostalgic, accessible music tracker from the demo scene, and praise its distinctive text-based interface. No critical comments were found.
5 people recommended ScreamTracker in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 5 comments.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 4 of 12 months
In 4 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 4 threadsNeeds 5 or more, not met.
- The biggest thread supplies 40% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 5 of the 5 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Valued by the demo scene
“A good example of demo group dogfooding. Unique text based UI too.”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “User Interfaces of the Demo Scene” “Omitting Scream Tracker, especially v3 is a big miss”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “User Interfaces of the Demo Scene” Nostalgic favorite from teenage years
“Great for the days and much more accesible for the teenager I was than buying and controlling synths”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon” “it was nothing short of magic”
Comment from 2 Aug 2026 in “Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2”
Other music trackers people recommend
The two most recommended other music trackers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renoise | 6 | 3 | 1 | 86% | 5 | — | — |
| FastTracker II | 6 | 2 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
| ScreamTrackerThis page | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 5 opinions about it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it was nothing short of magic”
“Omitting Scream Tracker, especially v3 is a big miss”
“A good example of demo group dogfooding. Unique text based UI too.”
“Great for the days and much more accesible for the teenager I was than buying and controlling synths”
“this cool program called Scream Tracker 3”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.