Re: [LAU] audio file player with playback SPEED control???

On 7/31/10, david <gnome@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
>> A friend of mine was telling me how he listens to his speech podcasts
>> on his iPod at faster than natural playback speeds. I'd like to do
>> this with an audio file player which can do the same on Linux. Which
>> one(s) should I investigate? Of course, I want the original pitch at
>> any playback speed.
>
> If you don't mind command line stuff, mplayer has playback speed control:
>
> INTERACTIVE CONTROL
> MPlayer has a fully configurable, command-driven control
> layer which
> allows you to control MPlayer using keyboard, mouse, joystick or
> remote
> control (with LIRC). See the -input option for ways to
> customize it.
>
> keyboard control
> <- and ->
> Seek backward/forward 10 seconds.
> up and down
> Seek forward/backward 1 minute.
> pgup and pgdown
> Seek forward/backward 10 minutes.
> [ and ]
> Decrease/increase current playback speed by 10%.
> { and }
> Halve/double current playback speed.
> backspace
> Reset playback speed to normal.
>

The trouble with [ and ] in mplayer is that they don't preserve the
original pitch.
But

mplayer -af scaletempo -speed 1.2 yourfile.mp3

of which I probably learned on this list, does.

Andras
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Received on Sun Aug 1 20:15:02 2010