Software:MPEG Audio Decoder

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madplay
Developer(s)Robert Leslie
Initial release2000
Stable release
0.15.2b / February 23, 2004 (2004-02-23)
Repositorysourceforge.net/projects/mad/
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, FreeBSD, macOS
TypeMedia player
LicenseGPLv2[1]
Websiteunderbit.com/products/mad/

MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a GPL library for decoding files that have been encoded with an MPEG audio codec.[2] It was written by Robert Leslie and produced by Underbit Technologies. It was developed as a new implementation, on the ISO/IEC standards.[3]

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[3][4][5] while madplay is notable for its ReplayGain support.

References

  1. "GNU General Public License". https://www.underbit.com/resources/license/gpl. Retrieved 6 September 2019. 
  2. "MPEG Players & Encoders". linux-sound.org. http://www.linux-sound.org/mpeg.html. Retrieved November 3, 2011. "MAD Robert Leslie's GPL'd MPEG audio decoder" 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "MAD". Freecode. http://freecode.com/projects/libmad. 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." 
  4. "MPEG source codes". mp3-tech.org. http://www.mp3-tech.org/programmer/decoding.html. Retrieved November 3, 2011. "MAD is an mpeg-1 decoder using only integer computation." 
  5. "madplay". Ubuntu Manpage Repository. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120404160612/http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man1/madplay.1.html. 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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