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====libmad====
libmad (MAD) is an audio decoder, supports MP3.

MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 and the MPEG-2 extension to lower sampling frequencies, as well as the de facto MPEG 2.5 format. All three audio layers — Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III (i.e. **MP3**) — are fully implemented.

Required by [[K3B]] (cd burner) for MP3 functions.

==Download==
Available from the ibiblio repository:
[[http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/libmad-0.15.1b.pet libmad-0.15.1b.pet]]

==Related Pages==
[[http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ libmad homepage]]
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