1 MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1
2 as well as the MPEG-2 extension to Lower Sampling Frequencies. All
3 three audio layers (Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III a.k.a. MP3) are
6 MAD does not yet support MPEG-2 multichannel audio (although it should
7 be backward compatible with such streams) or AAC, nor does it support
8 the so-called MPEG 2.5 format.
10 MAD has the following special features:
13 - 100% fixed-point (integer) computation
14 - completely new implementation based on the ISO/IEC standards
15 - distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
17 The software is distributed as a library (libmad) and command-line
20 WWW: http://mad.sourceforge.net/