Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] mp3 format specs

Sometime on Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:56:41PM +0000, Dinesh Joshi said:

is kinda obvious since mp3 is a proprietary format. But there are so many open source mp3 decoders AND encoders. Where / how do these people get the specs? If they can get the specs then so should I. Can you please suggest a link / a book or a something where I could get developer specs for the mp3 format?

You might want to have a look at MAD project. It is an independent implementation of the ISO/IEC MPEG standards. Its source code might give you some insight.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/

I was, once upon a time trying to play mpeg streams using python-pymad library. Would you be interested in having the unfinished python source?

Anurag