audio/mad123 0.8.5nb51 NetBSD

mad123 is a simple command line MP3 player using Robert Leslie's libmad fixed-point MP3 decoder library.

This is not meant to be a serious replacement for the ubiquitous mpg123 program. Instead, this is a merely an experiment in using libmad. At the time mad123 was written, a couple of things set it apart from the command line MP3 player supplied with libmad (madplay):

1. Supports URL style MP3 pathnames.

2. The audio output is double-buffered. Multiple audio backends such as Sun (OSS), aRts, and pcm are supported.

3. Streams can be pre-buffered using read-ahead.

4. Simple keyboard controls.

5. Playlist support.

6. CTRL-C behaves like it does for mpg123.

7. It can be installed setuid-root so it can adjust scheduling priority to reduce its susceptibility to jitter.