[alsa-devel] MP3 files with ALSA

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:34:29PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:

> but i have a doubt with mp3 files. I know that i need to decode mp3 into
> wav, for example, for playing it with alsa, but my doubt is if alsa decode
> this internally, or if is my job doing it.

ALSA doesn't do this, your application or a library it uses needs to do
it.  mplayer is one example of a program that can decode MP3s.