Audio::Play::MPG123 0.63

Audio::Play::MPG123 is a frontend to mpg123 version 0.59r and beyond.

SYNOPSIS

use Audio::Play::MPG123;

$player = new Audio::Play::MPG123;
$player->load("kult.mp3");
print $player->artist,"n";
$player->poll(1) until $player->state == 0;

$player->load("http://x.y.z/kult.mp3");

# see also mpg123sh from the tarball

This is a frontend to the mpg123 player. It works by starting an external mpg123 process with the -R option and feeding commands to it.

While the standard mpg123 player can be used to play back mp3s using this module you will encounter random deadlocks, due to bugs in its communication code. Also, many features (like statfreq) only work with the included copy of mpg123, so better use that one before deciding that this module is broken.

(In case you wonder, the mpg123 author is not interested in including these fixes and enhancements into mpg123).