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

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Aug 01 2010 - 19:27:11 EEST

Andras Simon wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I didn't know that. I don't use speed adjustments when listening
to audio, but I'm not into spoken podcast type things.

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David
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