Is it possible for Matlab to read and decode an mp3 file?

Question

I have run the following Matlab code and I got a signal as shown in the Figure below.

[y, fs] = audioread(mp3file);
y1 = y(:,1);
y2 = y(:,2);
dt = 1/fs;
t1 = 0:dt:(length(y1)*dt)-dt;
t2 = 0:dt:(length(y2)*dt)-dt;
plot(t1,y1);  
hold on
plot(t2,y2);

Is this a signal generate from a raw mp3 file or it is generated from a Matlab-decoded-mp3 file (which means Matlab has internally decoded the mp3 file)?

Answer 1

Supported codecs and containers for the audioread function of matlab can be found at:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/audioread.html