MPEG Audio Decoder

madplay
Developer(s) Robert Leslie
Initial release 2000
Stable release 0.15.2b / February 23, 2004
Written in C
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X
Type Media player
License GNU General Public License
Website http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a GPL library for decoding files that have been encoded with an MPEG audio codec.[1] It was written by Robert Leslie and produced by Underbit Technologies. It was developed as a new implementation, on the ISO/IEC standards.[2]

It consists of libmad, a software library, and madplay, a command-line program for MP3 playback. libmad is notable for using only fixed-point arithmetic[2][3][4] while madplay is notable for its ReplayGain support.

References

  1. ↑ "MPEG Players & Encoders". linux-sound.org. Retrieved November 3, 2011. MAD Robert Leslie's GPL'd MPEG audio decoder
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "MAD". Freecode. Retrieved November 3, 2011. MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder capable of 24-bit output. All computations are performed with fixed-point integer arithmetic, making it ideal for systems without a floating-point unit. The implementation is entirely new, based on the ISO/IEC standards.
  3. ↑ "MPEG source codes". mp3-tech.org. Retrieved November 3, 2011. MAD is an mpeg-1 decoder using only integer computation.
  4. ↑ "madplay". Ubuntu Manpage Repository. Retrieved November 3, 2011. Among the special features of MAD are 24-bit PCM resolution and 100% fixed-point (integer) computation.

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