The great wisdom and knowledge of higher level monks has learnt me the different between the library interface and playing MP3s using perl. Thanks to the help of those who replied to my previous question about Audio::Mad, I now know that I need to either find or create a front-end for madplay, an MP3 player using the very MAD libs that I wanted to use.

Alas, niether Google nor CPAN were any help with me there. I am currently using a PM that works as a front end for mpg123 (inferior to the MAD based players). With some trickery and symbolic links, I have used the replacement mpg321 application (which works 100% exactlythe same way) with the module without any problems. But I don't think that mpg321 (even though it uses MAD) is as good as madplay. If nothing else, I like the output of madplay better.

Does anyone know of such a front-end module for madplay that exists? Or at least, could someone offer me some pointers in writing a front-end for an executable (in linux), as I have never done so before.

Thanks again,

--Coplan

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