On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 11:32 PM, Zhiwen Yang wrote:

who can tell me how to get the time when i play a mp3 file using libmad ? which function can i use ?

For each decoded frame, frame->header.duration contains the playing time of the samples produced by the frame. You can use the function mad_timer_add() to accumulate these times and obtain an accurate measure of absolute time position.

Use the other timer functions such as mad_timer_count() or mad_timer_string() to convert the internal timer value to a useful representation.