     mpgedit - MPEG 1/2/2.5 (MP3) audio file editor
               Version __MAJOR__.__MINOR__ __RELTYPE____CKPOINT__ __MONTH__ __DAY__, __YEAR__
                   http://mpgedit.org
        Copyright (C) 2001-__YEAR__ by Adam Bernstein


Written by: Adam Bernstein <number6@mpgedit.org>, released under
the GPL.  See "COPYING" for full details.

The mpgedit audio playback plugins uses the MPGLIB decoding engine,
from the MPG123 package, written by: Michael Hipp (www.mpg123.de)
MPGLIB is released under the GPL.

The version of MPGLIB used in this release comes from LAME 3.90 alpha 7,
released under the GNU LESSER PUBLIC LICENSE.

Copyrights (c) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Taylor: LAME
Copyrights (c) 1998 by Michael Cheng: LAME
Copyrights (c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp: mpglib

curses.dll comes from the PDCurses 2.4 package (pdc24_vc_w32.zip),
http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/index.html

The Gimp Toolkit (GTK) is used by xmpgedit, http://gtk.org.

The Win32 installer uses Inno Setup (IS), Copyright (C) 1997-2003++
Jordan Russell (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php)

The MD5 checksum library (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmd5-rfc/)
is Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002 Aladdin Enterprises.  
All rights reserved.

The libdecoder_mad.so playback plugin is implemented using libmad,
libmad - MPEG audio decoder library, Underbit Technologies, Inc.
Copyright (C)  2000-2004 Underbit Technologies, Inc.
http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/

The getopt.c win32/getopt.h sources are originally from GNU getopt,
Copyright (C) 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 1993, Free Software Foundation, Inc.

audio_macosx.c: originally written by Guillaume Outters. AudioUnit version 
by Steven A. Kortze <skortze@sourceforge.net>

audio_aix.c: Code by Juergen Schoew <juergen.schoew@unix-ag.org>;
Tomas Oegren <stric@acc.umu.se>, (code for audio_close delay);
Cleanups and testing by Niklas Edmundsson <nikke@ing.umu.se>.

audio_hp.c, audio_oss.c, audio_win32.c, audio_sun.c: No attributions 
present in source code.  Originally part of mpg123 project, copyrights 
(c) 1995,1996,1997 by Michael Hipp.

As well as additional copyrights as documented in the source code.


=========================================================================
- Refer to NEWS file for __MAJOR__.__MINOR____RELTYPE____CKPOINT__ beta release notes 

- For mpgedit___RELEASE___src.exe source bundle, see the file 
  "INSTALL" for compilation and installation instructions.

- For mpgedit___RELEASE___linux.exe binary bundle, See the file 
  "README.linux" for installation instructions.

- For mpgedit___RELEASE___linux_rh7.exe binary bundle, See the file 
  "README.linux" for installation instructions.

- Execute the native Windows installer for mpgedit or xmpgedit by running
  setup_mpgedit___RELEASE__.exe or setup_xmpgedit___RELEASE__.exe respectively.

- For mpgedit___RELEASE___win32.zip binary bundle, See the file "README.win32" 
  for installation instructions.

Please report bugs to: number6@mpgedit.org
