mpg123-1.28.2

Introduction to mpg123

The mpg123 package contains a console-based MP3 player. It claims to be the fastest MP3 decoder for Unix.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

mpg123 Dependencies

Recommended

Optional

PulseAudio-15.0, SDL-1.2.15, JACK, OpenAL and PortAudio

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mpg123

Installation of mpg123

Install mpg123 by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: mpg123, mpg123-id3dump, mpg123-strip, and out123
Installed Libraries: libmpg123.so and libout123.so
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/mpg123

Short Descriptions

mpg123

is used for playing MP3 files via the console

mpg123-id3dump

is a tool to dump ID3 meta data from MPEG audio files using libmpg123

mpg123-strip

extracts only MPEG frames from a stream using libmpg123 (stdin to stdout)

out123

plays raw PCM audio to an output device

libmpg123.so

contains the mpg123 API functions

libout123.so

contains the out123 API functions

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