Comments on: Increase Productivity – Speed Up Your iPod Playback!

By: sara

sara — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:07:39 +0000

I’m a pc (((
Is there any hope for me?

By: TheKid

TheKid — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:32:50 +0000

“I tried this out with my nano chromatic and i don’t seem to have a variable playback option if I hit the center button 3x, any ideas?”

it has to be under audiobook and instead of pressing button 3x you hold the center button down

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:44:19 +0000

I'm not sure, Sam. Are you sure you converted to AAC, and then made the AAC (not the original file) bookmarkable? Also make sure that it's the AAC file that is getting synced to your iPod, not the original.

I don't know if it works on shuffles, but it works on every other iPod model I've tried (including my nano).

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:19:42 +0000

I tried this out with my nano chromatic and i don’t seem to have a variable playback option if I hit the center button 3x, any ideas?

By: Colin Y.J. Chung

Colin Y.J. Chung — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:40:05 +0000

Thank you for this useful post.

This is a great way to really get through hours of educational material if you are short on time.

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:11:25 +0000

I would like variable-speed playback on my iPod. In particular, I'd like to be able to slow it down when playing back audio files, for better comprehension when listening to language-learning mp3's. Second, third, etc. languages are much easier to understand when slowed down just 10 or 20 percent. So I agree, incremental speed control would be great. And for native-language podcasts or audio books, it would be nice to speed them up.

Thanks for the tip about converting your file to AAC and making it an audiobook... I may use that. The approach I've been using is to slow the file down using 3rd-party software (e.g. the free Audacity) before putting it on my iPod. Of course this takes additional storage space if you want both slow and regular versions.

Lars