About:
Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It supports MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback even on relatively slow CPUs.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
Lots of bug fix patches. The main feature is a bug fix for streams produced by the latest encoders (eg AudioCatalyst)

Author:
RedLabel [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.69/10.00 (12 votes)

Homepage:
http://mpg123.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://mpg123.org/download/mpg123-1.5.1.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://mpg123.org/download/mpg123-1.5.1.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://mpg123.org/[..]gi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/NEWS?view=markup
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://mpg123.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]?atid=733194&group_id=135704&func=browse

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, Microsoft :: Windows :: Cygwin, POSIX, Unix
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3, Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.5.1	29-Aug-2008	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Development	1.0rc3	18-Dec-2007	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.5.1	Minor bugfixes	29-Aug-2008 14:15
1.5.0	Major feature enhancements	02-Aug-2008 18:38
1.4.3	Major bugfixes	22-May-2008 11:39
1.4.2	Minor bugfixes	20-Apr-2008 21:11
1.4.1	Major bugfixes	08-Apr-2008 07:05
1.4.0	N/A	07-Apr-2008 02:25
1.3.1	N/A	08-Mar-2008 23:56
1.3.0	Major bugfixes	03-Mar-2008 01:11
1.2.1	N/A	19-Feb-2008 23:38
1.2.0	N/A	01-Feb-2008 10:14

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New mpg123 packages fix arbitrary code execution
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, May 24th 2006 09:58
  
• Debian: New mpg123 packages fix arbitrary code execution
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Nov 1st 2004 20:51
  
• Debian: New mpg123 packages fix arbitrary code exceution
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Oct 13th 2004 06:25
  
• Debian: New mpg123 packages fix heap overflow
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Feb 6th 2004 12:56
  
• Sound and Music Software
  by Dave Phillips , in Category Reviews
  Sat, Dec 15th 2001 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] This is a good mp3 player that eats up very little cpu
by louigi600 - Mar 20th 2003 07:03:21

I liked it so much that I wrote a front ent for this in order to have smart playback capabilities in ncurses/text mode to be used in a car.
have a look at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cm3s/

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[»] pre0.59s and CVS fail to compile linux-3dnow-alsa and
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Dec 25th 2001 04:05:15

Don't waste your time if you can't fix it. audio_alsa.c appears to be broken. There are various errors.

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[»] Re: pre0.59s and CVS fail to compile linux-3dnow-alsa and
by Thomas Orgis - Jul 26th 2006 23:17:45

audio_alsa.c is old and perhaps will only work on a system with old alsa 0.5 api. Maybe we will write a replacement for current alsa, but that actually is not necessary: the development bof 0.60 version contains libao output - current alsa support is avaible among others.

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[»] Re: pre0.59s and CVS fail to compile linux-3dnow-alsa and
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Jul 30th 2006 18:13:20

Thanks. I just installed 0.60-pre3. Very nice work. I've been searching for something to play .pls files.

BTW, do you intend to backport any other changes from pre0.59s CVS ? Are there any worth left ?

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[»] Re: pre0.59s and CVS fail to compile linux-3dnow-alsa and
by Thomas Orgis - Jul 31st 2006 05:41:06

Topic: backport (any other) changes from pre0.59s CVS ? We already have the MMX code... we try to get the current version stable and then see what one can improve by looking at Michael's trunk and other places like MPlayer's mp3lib. I would be nice if we get 0.60 to safely support MPEG2.5 and free format... If you have any other issues in mind - feel free to post that on the soruceforge project's tracker to remind us;-)

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[»] Mpg123
by tone - Jan 31st 2000 04:53:55

I've used mpg123 with Redhat and Slackware. It works great, and there are no bugs (that I see). I recommend it for those of you that use console, also check out Cmp3, it's a ncurses frontend for mpg123 (makes it easier, handles playlists). On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best), I rate mpg123 as a 10, if you are looking for an mp3 player, you've found the best one.

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[»] mpg123 goes great with cdrecord!
by corvus23 - Jan 11th 2000 23:29:12

I use the following sh script to write mp3's directly to my cdwriter as audio:

for var in `ls -1 $1`; do
	echo Burning $var ..........;
	mpg123 -s $var | cdrecord dev=imation -v -nofix -audio -swab -	
done
cdrecord dev=imation -fix

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[»] ppc users
by Yann Bizeul - Mar 23rd 1999 07:17:50

sometimes, ppc users have to redirect the output to /dev/dsp
e.g. mpg123 -s song.mp3 > /dev/dsp

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[»] Totally wonderful...
by nowimnothing - Mar 13th 1999 01:50:47

This thing compiled perfectally under slackware 3.5, runs very well, and actually plays mp3 WELL on my 486/dx66 -- I'm VERY impressed. Keep up the good work, this is quality software!

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[»] Best MP3 player
by Hernan Alvarez - Feb 3rd 1999 01:05:55

Simply... mpg123 is THE BEST MP3 PLAYER! Download it now!

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