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'''MPEG Audio Layer II''', also known as '''MP2''' (but not to be confused with [[MPEG-2]]), is a compressed audio format. There are two versions of it: '''MPEG-1 Audio Layer II''' and '''MPEG-2 Audio Layer II'''.

It is one of the standards defined in [[MPEG-1]] Part 3 (ISO/IEC 11172-3), and in [[MPEG-2]] Part 3 (ISO/IEC 13818-3).

== See also ==
* [[MPEG Audio Layer I|MPEG Audio Layer I (MP1)]]
* [[MP3|MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3)]]

== Specifications ==
* [https://www.iso.org/standard/22412.html ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993] - MPEG-1 Part 3 (not free to download)
* [https://www.iso.org/standard/26797.html ISO/IEC 13818-3:1998] - MPEG-2 Part 3 (not free to download)

== Software ==
* [[Konvertor]]
* [[VLC]]
* [https://github.com/phoboslab/pl_mpeg PL_MPEG]

== Sample files ==
* [https://samples.ffmpeg.org/archive/audio/mp2/mp3++mp2++audiotest.mp2 mp3++mp2++audiotest.mp2]

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia: MPEG-1 Audio Layer II]]

[[Category:MPEG]]