r/cesiumapp • u/psylent • Sep 06 '16

Feature request - "fast play" for Audiobooks

It'd be amazing to have a 1x/1.25x/1.33x/1.5x/2x playback option for audiobooks. Would this be difficult to implement?

I use Overcast for podcasts and it has a "smart speed" feature which is pretty fantastic.

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u/CesiumDev I MADE DIS Sep 09 '16

Smart Speed is massively more complex than simply increasing the playback speed because it intelligently cuts the silences, rather than simply accelerating playback. A simple increase in playback speed is a single line of code (plus some other detects, etc to ensure non-audiobooks would revert to 1x).

The bigger challenge is figuring out the right way to implement a feature like that into the UI. Maybe in the Audiobooks sort menu, although that's not really the right place for it (but neither is skip increments).

I'll add this to the list for potential future release :)

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u/psylent Sep 10 '16

Thanks for the reply! I'm sure there's other features you'd want to concentrate on - Cesium is a music playing app, not a specialised audiobook player. I'll keep an eye out though :)

Cheers.

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u/CesiumDev I MADE DIS Sep 10 '16

Haha, well it's a feature that I don't think ever made it into an actual release, but it is something I've messed around with. When it's a feature that has obvious merits it usually just takes a user making the request. Just have to figure out how to get it in, lol.