MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a GPL library for decoding files that have been encoded with an MPEG audio codec.
[2] It was written by Robert Leslie and produced by Underbit Technologies.
[3] It consists of libmad, a software library, and madplay, a command-line program for MP3 playback.
Development ended decades ago, and vulnerabilities identified since then have gone unpatched.
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