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Install mp3fs with Homebrew
Read-only FUSE file system: transcodes audio formats to MP3. Version 1.1.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-21.
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Package summary
Read-only FUSE file system: transcodes audio formats to MP3
Project links
Commands and aliases
- mp3fs
history
Project history and usage
mp3fs is a read-only FUSE filesystem that presents FLAC and Ogg Vorbis files as MP3 files by transcoding on access. The original author and maintainer was David Collett from 2006 to 2008; K. Henriksson became the primary author and maintainer afterward. The manual records the same authorship split, with copyright for David Collett in 2006-2008 and K. Henriksson afterward.
Project history
The project's role is a neat filesystem trick for lossless music collections. A user mounts a source directory and a mountpoint, and applications browsing the mountpoint see .mp3 names for the underlying FLAC/Ogg files. Reads initialize decoders and encoders, fill an internal per-file buffer, and emit MP3 data without requiring the user to keep a second converted library. The README gives examples for FUSE mounts and fstab entries, and describes practical uses such as feeding hardware or software that only understands MP3.
How it is used
Its major milestones track the broadening of that original idea. The news file lists an initial 0.01 release in 2006, a 0.30 release that added better documentation, bitrate selection, LAME quality settings, and metadata improvements, a 0.9 rewrite of the transcoding code around codec classes, and a 1.0 release that added Ogg Vorbis decoding, VBR MP3 encoding, logging improvements, and a more modern C++11 codebase. In package managers it sits at the intersection of audio tooling and filesystem integration; Homebrew exposes it as a FUSE-dependent formula with FLAC, LAME, libid3tag, and libvorbis in its dependency chain.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Risk classifier
blue risk · medium confidence · tool
Why
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signals
- text:audio
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
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executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mp3fs | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.1.1
manager updated2026-06-21
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mp3fs |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.1.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://khenriks.github.io/mp3fs/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/khenriks/mp3fs |
| Last updated | 2026-06-21T17:39:42-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation