mpg123 is a real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1,2 and Layer3. (MPEG 2.0 with Layer1/2 not heavily tested) Tested with Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, HPUX 9.x and SGI Irix.
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 my AMD 486-133MHz machine).
The project is not maintained at the moment and there are some serious security problems in the latest player versions. It is highly recommended to not use the source code you can download from this site.
What’s New in This Release:
· Quite a few fixes and improvements went into the second release candidate.
· ID3 handling is safer now, and IDv2 support has been added to the remote control interface.
· The buffer and general output code received a lot of attention: among other changes, the buffer works properly on Mac OS X, write errors to output are handled, and the interactive experience with the buffer and terminal control has been improved.
· Flexible rate mode should work again.
Download (tar.gz) (mpg123 0.68 Stable)
Download Source (tar.bz2) (mpg123 1.0 RC1 Development)