What song are you listening to right now.

Motifator · April 26

Time to dust off the coats a bit in here... RIP sir. John Miles.

Tan3l6 · April 27

The Offspring. Good.

90s

Caffeine in the form of punk rock.

Motifator · April 28

E-waste · April 28

Try playing your music library a little bit slower with vlc. It even works on iPods with apps, so instead of hearing your music at the same speed each time, vlc let's you set it.

So I really want this feature to get more use and I'd like to improve the slider ui, and add a new feature: custom speed per song. It's basically already there with bookmarks and save playback speed, just bring those two features together.

Moving the slider causes the sound to skip, and doesn't allow moving to nearby speeds. The range is too wide, should be customizable.

Arrows move by 5%, less would be easier, and allow 0.01% precision.

Lines for all ,1 5 10% points. Clearly shows how much to move to access a speed.

Playlists based on speed preset. Each song wpuld have multiple custom speed set, and after cesting the playlist, you could set the playlist to load speed one or two for all songs.

Instead of 100% as normal speed, change it to distance from 0 which works a lot better for further modifying overall speed ibn addition to the preset song speed.

Hopefully some of these changes will be added, as it reduces the need to constantly adjust the speed.

kasdashd · April 28

mrtwonavels · April 29

mrtwonavels · April 29

E-waste · April 29

Grateful Dead - Casey jones, at 79-80% speed, I tried to match it up, but it's not 81% or 79% but 80% didn't quite match either, close though.

A lot of grateful dead songs sound more relaxed at slower speeds, just don't let the lower vocals distrqct you from what really matters, the music.

The high pitch guitars still come through at speeds as low as 42-48%

xAcid9 · May 1

E-waste · Wednesday at 11:01 PM

Just listened to "the promise" by original artist, When in Rome, and the slower cover by Sturgill Simpson, and it is a great example of how a slower, more soulful performance can improve a aong.

Original music, but slowed, and chopped slightly.

Whoever (multiple people) upload these videos really seem to enjoy the music, and put quite a bit of work into re-imagining the music, so I am definitely not the only one who likes to slow down music. I should contact all of those uploaders and tell them that vlc can allow custom speeds on their music, with no timestretch effect. They would probably be very interested in my ideas for the feature.

The only one I can name from memory is DJ crystal clear, but it looks like there are a bunch, I could even help upload lots of great songs at a couple different speeds each.

A 20 to 25% speed reduction on the original would be nice, and I like both versions. It just seems 80s music like this (not most of it) is locked into this weird formula, that maybe record producers or managers pushed. It just seems such an un-natural style that isn't replicated in any other decade of music and I find it very strange. Maybe it was all the powder.

There's a lot of great music from the 80s from hip hop, rock n roll, thrash metal, country, and blues. But when it comes to this strange "pop" category, it has this identifiable sound to it, and most of that 80s pop music sounds nearly identical, as if everyone was (probably) copying everyone else). Must have been something in the food or the water.

It's like there was a time-crunch to put out crappy music and make a mill, than to slow down and have a true soulful performance on the song, and to me, that's not an artist, it's a money grab. Great lyrics in the song, and if it were written just ten years before or after, would have sounded a lot better.

So if you haven't tried slowing down your music, download VLC, and go into audio or advanced settings, and clear the timestretch box.

I have several changes and feature additions for playback speed

Show and rename timestretch on slider, with a button for more info.

Dragging slider should move to next nearby percent, not wait 10+ % points to move

Range is excessive, limit to a default of 60 to 110% and allow custom

Arrows change by 5% far too much, allow 0.1% changes, which is the same as 100 to 200%

New feature save speed for current song / speed presets

Each song has a speed preset, ordered from fastest to slowesr, so if you find multiple speeds that sound gpod for a song, quickly switch between them.

Customize or add a saved speed per song, so you can have a playlist with the speeds of all songs to match the bpm of the first song.

Orange linea for all 1 5 and 10% points. Makes it obvious how much to move to get to a specific speed.

Hopefully at least some of these changes get added