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Ah, sorry I don't use the JCH stuff, too much hassle setting it up.

A lot of Martin Galway's stuff has solos (TImes of Lore even has 3 randolmly chosen ones)  eg: Terra Cresta from about 2 minutes:

Vice's sidplay (VSid) has the "best" emulation apparantly, but the new stuff is currently in the nightly builds.  You can get those from here , I've been using one for a while for work and they're quite stable.     

I'm not keen on the VSid interface so I'm using sidplay2/w too, but I think it's a later build than the one on their site.

Yeah, only reason a sid would be in stereo is if it's using 2 chips, by default most players hard pan them for that case.  (and for 3sid they put the third sid in the centre)

Is it a particularly long track?   It's unlikely, but there might be an upper limit the packer stops at internally so the rest of the data doesn't get packed.  Again, unless it's in the instructions I doubt that would be the case though. (nothing about it in the instructions on one of those disks)    I guess you could try loading it in a later version and see what the backwards compatibility is like.  Can't imagine the player changed that much, a v4.0 track doesn't sound a lot different to a v1.0 in fx.

No you use JMPs because when you call the music player in your own stuff you call it with JSR , so the RTS gets picked up by your JSR rather than the music routine's JMP.  It's more for convenience sake than anything else.   If a coder writes an intro and wants to re-use it with different music they can drop a new file in and not have to change their calls to the init or play when using a different music player.  That's why a lot of music drivers have the same 3 calls at the start of the music routine.  (also they usually default to $1000 because you can't put graphics there so it's a good place for music)

Just tried it again with the version I linked above and I'm getting it to play fine with 0000,1800,1806   I haven't actually written any data in, I just chose one of the demo songs then saved that out packed.    I noticed there are several version of V2 out there, which version are you using?

No, sorry that was for a song at $1000  .  Try:

ADDRESS=0000,1800,1806

Setting the load address to 0000 makes the Sidplayer use the PRG's 2-byte header to find out where to load the file automatically.   If that doesn't work you can try:

ADDRESS=1800,1800,1806

Originally the loop points for those ST-XX disks were stored in a different file used by Soundtracker. (called the PLST)   Traditionally Soundtracker samples were stored as raw audio.