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I am looking for a MP3/Ogg player that has the ability to playback a file at a higher speed, preferably without affecting the pitch. What players allow that? The only one I know right now is alsaplayer, but it can't do it without affecting the pitch and also has currently a bug that causes it to use 100% of the CPU at all times, so that renders it kind of unusable. What alternatives are out there?

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  • There's a bug filed on `alsaplayer` about the 100% CPU usage, right? If not, will you please file a bug about it? Thanks! – Firefeather Jan 26 '12 at 17:51

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playitslowly

Different to the suggestion of the application's name this player is able to change to a higher or lower pitch or to different playback speeds. Also included is the ability to loop over a section of the audio file (for transcription purposes), and to save the file at a given different speed.

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Screenshot from Debian

The package is in the repositories (universe) from Ubuntu >=11.04. Here is the project's home page. The player is based on gstreamer, so any files compatible with that will be played.

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    VLC is capable of keeping the pitch as well when activating the "scale audio tempo in sync with playback rate" filter which can be found under advanced options. – John Paul Qiang Chen Apr 26 '20 at 11:37