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 - libmad has been patched to avoid using a lot of stack and is not provided here. There is an issue with sync detection in 1.15.1b from where the original stack patch was done but since a few fixes have been made wrt sync detection. This 1.15.1b-10 found on debian fixes the issue where mad thinks it has reached sync but has not and so returns a wrong sample rate. It comes at the expense of 8KB (!) of code where a simple check in squeezelite/mad.c that next_frame[0] is 0xff and next_frame[1] & 0xf0 is 0xf0 does the trick ...
 
 # Footnotes
-(1) SPDIF is made by tricking the I2S bus but this consumes a fair bit of CPU as it multiplies by four the throughput on the i2s bus. To optimize some computation, the parity of the spdif frames must always be 0, so at least one bit has to be available to force it. As SPDIF samples are 20+4 bits length maximum, the LSB is used for that purpose, so the bit 24 is randomly toggling. It does not matter for 16 bits samples but it has been chosen to truncate the last 4 bits for 24 bits samples. I'm sure that some smart dude can further optimize spdif_convert() and use the user bit instead. You're welcome to do a PR but, as said above, I (philippe44) am not interested by 24 bits mental illness :-) and I've already made an effort to provide 20 bits which already way more what's needed :-)