MPEG Audio Decoder
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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]
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Developer(s) | Robert Leslie |
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Initial release | 2000 |
Stable release | 0.15.2b
/ February 23, 2004 (2004-02-23) |
Repository | sourceforge |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, macOS |
Type | Media player |
License | GPLv2[1] |
Website | underbit |
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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.
Development ended decades ago, and vulnerabilities identified since then have gone unpatched.[6][7][8]