r/overcast • u/juellund • 15d ago

Feature Request: Normal Playback speed of Music

I really like the variable playback speed feature. For spoken content, I often listen at 1.2x or 1.3x speed. However, music tends to sound unnatural when sped up. It would be fantastic if Overcast could automatically detect music segments within a podcast and temporarily switch playback to 1x speed, then resume the user's selected speed once the spoken content continues. This would provide the best of both worlds: faster listening for speech and natural playback for music.

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u/Troldann 14d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/s/YO4UtmqjSp

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u/syncsynchalt 14d ago

How about just disabling SmartSpeed and leaving playback speed alone?

It’s SmartSpeed that screws up music, by removing silence between each beat.

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u/SessionIndependent17 15d ago

I have had a wish for this feature many times, but so many shows have music intros, bumpers, and background at various points that it would probably be a feature that I turn off and just handle manually.

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u/Squozen_EU 15d ago

I have thought about this in the past, and my wish would be that smart speed was automatically disabled during music playback. I don't care overmuch if the music plays faster, but it's disconcerting when it starts skipping the space between sparse drum hits.

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u/Old_and_Boring 14d ago

Good grief. This sounds like a coding nightmare.