Did you ever want a little background music with your daily grind but either you didn’t want to (or couldn’t) fire up something graphical to use? That’s where mpg123 comes to your rescue. Mpg123 is a fast console MPEG audio player and decoder library. If you’re about to click on to another story because you think that a command line music playing application is devoid of features or functions, you’re going to miss out on one of the coolest and most versatile MP3 applications you’ve ever seen.