mpg123-1.31.2

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 11.3 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