Talk:Mpg123
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You should note that the project is dead! See: http://www.mpg123.de/ It has security holes that are NOT fixed.
[edit] mpg321
mpg123 wasnt always licensed under the GNU GPL. It had some other more restrictive license in the past. As a result, some people made mpg321 which was a clone of mpg123 but under the GNU GPL. So alot of people switched over to mpg321 as it was more free. But now mpg123 is under the GNU GPL too. I think!
mpg321 is actually a console frontend for libMAD, an MPEG Audio decoding library of questionable quality. I prefer to use the MP3 input plugin that comes with the Audacious Media Player. It's decoding core is called mpg123-clone and is essentially a derivative of the most recent mpg123 source code which has been adapted with audio quality and patent avoidance in mind. --Ssokolow 05:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
