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Apollo
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Apollo started out as a MP3-player. It is recognized
by its outstanding MP3 decoding quality, powerful
continuous playback support and advanced playlist
capabilities. It supports different file formats
through so called input plug-ins. Writing an input
plug-ins is rather straight forward (see the plug-ins
page for more info) and thus Apollo can be easily made
to support new audio formats. The player routines
provide continuous playback or even a crossfade
between tracks on all supported formats and with all
output types (standard Wave Out, DirectSound and WAV
file output). It is possible to direct the output into
a WAV file, thus making it possible, for instance, to
decode MP3s for writing them onto a CD. The player
routines also provide a realtime 16-band equalizer for
all file types.
Currently Apollo ships with two input plug-ins: Apollo
MPEG decoder and Apollo WAV decoder. The MPEG decoder
is capable of handling both MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-
2.5 audio layer 2 and 3 files (i.e. MP2- and MP3-
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