mad: mad: MAD is a high-quality MPEG audio decoder. It currently supports MPEG-1 and mad: the MPEG-2 extension to Lower Sampling Frequencies, as well as the mad: so-called MPEG 2.5 format. All three audio layers (Layer I, Layer II, and mad: Layer III a.k.a. MP3) are fully implemented. mad: MAD does not yet support MPEG-2 multichannel audio (although it should be mad: backward compatible with such streams) nor does it currently support AAC. mad: