FreeLists / blindipod / [blindipod] Re: Flash audio player recommendation and increased playback speed

[Woody Anna Dresner <adresner@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

If you run Rockbox on an iPod (the Nano, Video, and some others), you 
can change the pitch of the file, meaning the speed.  You can get it 
considerably faster - I think twice as fast or more - but since the 
pitch increases as well, it would be hard to listen as fast as you 
would with speech compression.  The Nano can also speed up Audible 
books to some degree with compression using the built-in Apple 
firmware.  If you set it up to click through the speaker and 
headphones, you can navigate the menus on the Nano, though you have 
to remember what the songs and books are.  Running Rockbox, however, 
everything talks, so that works out well.

As for speeding up MP3s, I have used GoldWave to do this very 
successfully.  You can speed up the file and have the pitch increase, 
or you can speed it up with the pitch staying the same.  The latter 
takes quite a bit of processing time, but it's quite good.  Once you 
speed up the file, you save it and can load it into the player of your choice.

Cheers,
Anna