Good afternoon, Thanks for the response. That was exactly what I needed to know. I didn't relize VLC ad this feature. I have an mp3 e-book and wanted to speed it up
Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 3:50 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Everett, > > You probably need to say more about what you need in terms of > adjusting playback speed, what software you generally use, and what > you want to do in terms of adjusting speed in order to get a useful > answer. The basic answer is, yes, you can adjust speed of playback > with existing applications on the Mac, and you can even do so in a way > that preserves pitch. For example, you can play faster or slower in > VLC or QuickTime Player with keyboard shortcuts, but with fairly > coarse adjustments of speed. If you bring up the A/V Controls Window > of QuickTime Player (Command-K), you can separately interact with > sliders for pitch and playback speed for finer control. These > features are also supported in many sound editors like Audacity > (freeware), Sound Studio, and Amadeus Pro, and also in Garageband, but > at different levels of complexity and difficulty of implementation > depending on exactly what level of control you need and for what > purpose. > > If you want to control speed to learn/listen to music for performance > (not likely, given the way you've asked your question), you'd be much > better off looking at specialized software like the Amazing Slow > Downer from Roni music (or similar products), that will easily let you > slow down music to learn chord sequences with keyboard shortcuts, and > also play from CDs with these features enabled. Scott has used this. > > On the other hand, if you want to control playback speed to listen to > podcasts at a faster rate, then I just do this with QuickTime player > via AppleScripts that allow me to select tracks in my iTunes library > and switch player control between iTunes (which doesn't support faster > playback) and QuickTime Player (which does). This lets me keep the > last played position bookmarked. > > I think I responded to your post about this in January: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg49448.html > (Re: speed up slow down I tunes) > > The AppleScripts that I use for this, and their source (at the Mac OS > X Hints page) are described in that archived post. The source post > with the two scripts (posted by Louie) are also at the end of that > post. > > If you want to find out how to control speed and pitch in Garageband > or Audacity you'll have to ask elsewhere, although I know it's > doable. Similarly, you can use options supported in third-party > sound- > editing software to do this, probably with more control and ease that > working directly with QuickTime. Again, the best solution for you > depends on what you want to do, what level of control you need, and > what other software you may have on your machine. I haven't done much > with sound editing software for some time, so likely you'll get better > answers from other list readers. Also, since the earlier post didn't > get much response, it may not be relevant to your needs. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> >> I don't know of one that works outside Terminal, but there is >> Mplayer, >> but you do have to run it from Terminal and in fact you have to >> compile it. However, I believe there is a way to use iTunes to >> accomplish the same task, but I only heard it was possible, I have >> not >> done it myself. >> On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:11 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: >> >>> >>> Good morning, >>> >>> Is there an audio playback application for OSX that will allow me to >>> adjust the speed of playback? It would be ideal if pitch was not >>> affected by the change in speed, but not altogether necessary. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Everett >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
