Mpg123

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Template:Infobox Software Template:Lowercase mpg123 is a fast, free, minimalist, console MPEG audio player software program for UNIX and Linux operating systems. It supports MPEG-1 and -2, layers 1, 2 and 3. Its most common use is to play MP3 files.

mpg123 appeared after the first MP3 player for UNIX, MAPlay, and quickly came into widespread use, as it relied heavily on assembler optimizations to perform the iDCT part of the MPEG decoding quicker than any other MP3 player. This makes it probably the most resource-efficient MP3 player and library there is. The core of mpg123 is used by XMMS for MP3 playback.

The license of the mpg123 player is GPL and the license of the mpglib inside the mpg123 package is LGPL.

The development of the mpg123 software has ceased and there are some serious security holes that are not fixed. However, its core is still being updated by various third party developers and used in a number of projects such as in_!mpg123. foobar2000 uses a highly modified mpglib-based decoder. The FreeBSD ports collection includes an extensive patch set to fix known bugs and security issues.

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