I would lik to create a simple c program that takes in simple user input and plays an mp3 file according to the user input. The mp3 files will be stored in a designated directory (eg. \music) and this program will be running on linux platform.

Is there any sound or player library that i can make use of? Or is there anyway i can interface with any already present Linux mp3 player?

How do i actually go about doing so?

You could look into mpg123 or mpg321. mpg123 is what XMMS uses, and it's in pretty wide use for such things, but its license is restricted. mpg321 is a essentially the same type of thing, but with a completely free license so you can use the code in your own things, which looks like what you need. As for specific libraries, mpg321 uses MAD MPEG, but I don't know much more than that.

thks!
i went to [URL=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36274] and found 4 files there for this player but how do i actually go about installing this player? I am new to linux and dont really know where to save or run the various files.

do i require any other files to play mp3 because i am using fedora and they do not allow me to play mp3.

by the way, this mpg321 can actually allow me play locally stored mp3 files with it. however if i want to play audio streams from an external source (eg. another computer serving as an mp3 jukebox), can it be done using this program as well?

hello I am also looking for mp3 player so if u made the software please send it to me.

You can use the "Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL)" to access low level audio for your sound card and to play music from your CDROM.

http://www.libsdl.org/

SDL does not natively support MP3, but this is easily corrected by simply installing the smpeg library (which was written specifically for SDL and therefore requires SDL to compile).

http://icculus.org/smpeg/

While you're at it ... you can THEN install libvorbis in order to decode and play ogg files.

http://www.vorbis.com/

THEN install SDL_mixer which provides the API that allows you to call up both mp3 and ogg files (among others) from the same function calls.

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

Here is a link to a tutorial for SDL_mixer:
http://www.kekkai.org/roger/sdl/mixer/index.html

-- Tony