Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.8

Chapter 46. Audio Utilities

mpg123-1.22.4

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-7.8 platform.

Package Information

mpg123 Dependencies

Recommended

alsa-lib-1.0.29

Optional

PulseAudio-6.0, SDL-1.2.15, JACK, OpenAL and PortAudio

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mpg123

Installation of mpg123

Install mpg123 by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-module-suffix=.so &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--with-module-suffix=.so: This switch tells mpg123 to load modules with .so extension which is useful if you don't want to keep .la files.

Contents

Installed Programs: mpg123, mpg123-id3dump, mpg123-strip, and out123
Installed Library: libmpg123.so
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/mpg123

Short Descriptions

mpg123

is used for playing MP3 files via the console.

mpg123-id3dump

Tool to dump ID3 meta data from MPEG audio files using libmpg123

mpg123-strip

Extract only MPEG frames from a stream using libmpg123 (stdin to stdout)

out123

play raw PCM audio to an output device

libmpg123.so

contains the mpg123 API functions.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 15:38:20 -0700