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mpg123 - Fast console MPEG Audio Player

mpg123 is a real time MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 audio player for layers 1,2 and 3 (MPEG 1.0 layer 3 aka MP3 most commonly tested). Among others working with Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x, SGI Irix and Cygwin.
It is free software licensed under LGPL (the officially released sources, some files in subversion repository may differ).

Top News

2008-07-01 Thomas: Glory days!

There are two important announcements to bring to you, favoured public:

mpg123 1.x is in debian lenny (testing)! That means the next stable debian version will have a current mpg123 with libmpg123 as shared lib. That is good:-)
I finally came around and reworked the http code to be able to update the stuff to support IPv6 (like some patch already did quite some time ago).

The latter especially means that I need people to test the heck out of the current development snapshot to find all the nice little bugs I introduced. Seriously: I need you people test the code for IPv4 and IPv6. Please. Test. And. Report to the devel mailing list or just directly to the maintainer.

For older news see the news archive

Needed computing power

A recent test (GNU/Linux OS) with 0.60-beta2 showed 3% to 4% CPU usage on decoding high quality VBR MP3 with a pentiumII laptop with 366MHz, while a pentium 100MHz can easily handle two mpg123 instances in realtime (plus the mixing daemon that works on decoded data).

Michael said once upon a time

Plays Layer 3 in stereo on an AMD-486-120Mhz or (of course) a faster machine.

Just for info: mpg123 plays an average 128bps stream, with about 66% in full quality on an AMD 486-133MHz machine.