I think they choose the ones they know. That's why a lot of people are still using mpg123, but everyone knows what is just sucks. Not to mention that it had a lot of security vulns in the past on the HOMEPAGE they say it is not even maintained anymore so don't download the source code from them.
> Or madplay. From the people who wrote libmad in the first place. > Not that it has any particular advantage, but it seems the natural > default choice and I just don't understand why people always ignore > it in favor of mpg321. >
