1 MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG 1 as
2 well as the MPEG 2 extension to Lower Sampling Frequencies. All three
3 audio layers (Layer I, Layer II, and Layer III aka MP3) are fully
6 MAD does not yet support MPEG 2 multichannel audio (although it should be
7 backward compatible with such streams), nor does it support the so-called
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)