MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a
GPL library
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for decoding files that have been encoded with an
MPEG audio codec.
It was written by Robert Leslie and produced by Underbit Technologies. It was developed as a new implementation, on the
ISO/IEC standards.
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 while madplay is notable for its
ReplayGain support.
References
External links
MAD's home pageMAD's SourceForge pageOfficial MPEG web site
Free audio codecs
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