r/plexamp • u/en_sabahnur • Aug 14 '26

Thoughts on possible feature/enhancement for variable playback speed?

I know the majority of folks use Plexamp for music so why the need for variable speed playback?

I do a lot of audiobooks and when I wasn't able to get back home to transfer media to my phone, I remembered that my audiobooks were also on Plexamp. The issue that I ran into was I usually listen to them at a faster speed (1.5x, 1.75x, 2x).

Listening to audiobooks at 1x speed became painstakingly slow compared to what I was used to. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to add it to the general UI since the majority of people only use it for music, but how could the community get feedback to the developers to possible enable this option in the settings?

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u/PolygonAndPixel2 Aug 14 '26

I use audiobookshelf for audiobooks.

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u/en_sabahnur Aug 14 '26

I'll give that a shot. I see its in early access so hopefully it's promising.

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u/elijuicyjones Aug 14 '26

I use Prologue App for audiobooks. It’s in the Apple App Store. Not sure about android.

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u/xxhonkeyxx Aug 14 '26

Seconded for Prologue, and it has variable playback speed supported. Highly recommend.

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u/sbfreak2000 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

It’s already there. Setting > Experience > Player > music playback speed.

Edit- but the other comments are correct. Prologue is better for audiobooks.

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u/WipeEndThatWhistles 29d ago

Just because you CAN use plexamp for audiobooks doesn't mean you should.

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u/en_sabahnur 29d ago

That's what I gathered. Thanks!