mpg321 is a Free replacement for mpg123, a very popular command-line mp3 player. mpg123 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder (primarily for use with CD-recording software.) In all of these capacities, mpg321 can be used as a drop-in replacement for mpg123.

mpg321 is a project conceived and written by Joe Drew <hoserhead@woot.net>. It uses code from the MAD distribution by Rob Leslie; XMMS; and plaympeg from the SMPEG distribution. mpg321 is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2, as documented in the 'COPYING' file. It is now maintained by Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@wired-net.gr>

More about mpg321 and its history

These people & institutions have helped with this project. As well, these people have contributed to the development of mpg321.

News:

2009-07-29: mpg321 0.2.11 released

2002-03-24: mpg321 0.2.10 released

2002-03-10: mpg321 0.2.9 released

2001-12-04: mpg321 0.2.3 released

2001-11-24: Homepages under construction

Download:

You can download all versions of mpg321 on the Sourceforge project download page.

The latest version of mpg321 is 0.2.11. Highlights of this release include:

• Added HTTP proxy support with basic authentication mechanism.
• Added IPv6 support.
• mpg321 no longer segfaults on mp3s with an incomplete set of id3 tags.
• Fix the -k option, which was broken in 0.2.9.
• mpg321 now tries all other output devices if its default device can't be opened. If esd is using your sound card, mpg321 will now fall back on esd for output.

Full ChangeLog

This webpage was graciously created by Olli Rajala. Many thanks go to him for donating his time.