Xine can be setup to use mad or ffmpeg to decode MP3s I believe. (MAD
itself is just a decoding library and doesn't know anything about how
to make sounds). I highly doubt there's much difference. But anyways,
you could look into setting that up.

Make sure you turn off your equalizer when comparing "quality". Its
recently been fixed, but it used to be that the Xine equalizer would
make things much quieter.

Ian

On 1/22/07, Domel <domel@fastmail.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I find the mp3 quality as played with xmms-mad noticably better than the
> one played by amarok-xine. But I by far prefer the amarok's interface.
> (How) is it possible to use the mad decoder with amarok? I am on
> debian/unstable and find absolutely no related packages (they say about
> amarok-mad or kdemultimedia-mad in google but no such thingy for debian).
> Thanks for any hints,
> Domel
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