mpg123-1.30.2

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-11.2 platform.

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

Installed Programs: mpg123, mpg123-id3dump, mpg123-strip, and out123

Installed Libraries: libmpg123.so, libout123.so, and libsyn123.so

Installed Directory: /usr/lib/mpg123

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
`libsyn123.so`	contains some audio signal synthesis and format conversion functions