Anyone prefer to listen on the "faster" setting?

[Leslie]

Abigail wrote: "Thank you Leslie, this is helpful so I'm not restricted to only audible audio books. Is that through the itunes music library settings on the device or where on the Idevice do I find the settings? ..."

To listen to audiobooks, I select the Music icon at the bottom of the screen. I have edited mine so Music brings up audiobooks as one of the 4 choices at the bottom (to do this, select 'More' and at the upper left click on the button "edit" then drag & drop 'Audiobooks' to the bottom bar).

Once I am in my audiobooks, I pick the one I want to listen to - at the top, under the author, title, and chapter info, is the progress bar. Right underneath on the right is a small square box with the speed. Click on it to change the speed.

Sorry if that is too much detail...

[Abigail]

Leslie, I thank you, no that is just the perfect amount of explanation I needed to find it, I totally appreciate that. I'm going to look into those settings! It would have taken me a while to find that out on my own so I'm glad you shared it clearly like that!

Leslie wrote: "Abigail wrote: "Thank you Leslie, this is helpful so I'm not restricted to only audible audio books. Is that through the itunes music library settings on the device or where on the Idevice do I fin..."

[Grumpus, Hearing aide]

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I did not describe the Rockbox install problems I had trying to get it on my Clip+ before turning it over to a techie teen who can build computers and hack iPhones and he encountered the same issues I did. Cannot get Rockbox to write to the Clip+ even though everything appears installed and good from the PC.

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[Jackie - Fire & Ice Book Reviews]

I have to read my audiobooks fast, because if not I won't be interested, I find when the speed is slow I get very bored.

[Mattster]

Yes I definately enjoy reading at 2-2.5 speed to get through my podcasts, however books I tend to want to concentrate on more and really let sink in the content of what I am reading, hence normal speed. Mostly when I have time constraints this would be another reason to listen at faster speeds, however only in non sequential sections of a book.

[Lynne]

Leslie, this is a wonderful tip. Saves a bit of fumbling around when getting into listening mode. I agree that I would never have found it on my own.

[Melanie]

I listen to most podcasts on 1.5x speed, much preferable, but 2x speed on my podcast app is too fast for me.

Glad I'm not the only one, since my family thinks I'm nuts.

[Verena]

For me, it depends on the narrator and sometimes the content. Generally, I like to listen at normal speed. However, right now I'm listening to Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook, and there have been a couple of sections that just dragged, so I've been listening to that at 1.5x.

When I listened to Candidate Without A Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt, the author/narrator spoke so slowly that I had to speed it up.

[Amanda]

I've never intentionally listened to a sped up audiobook. Though, maybe I should have with "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" which really drug along. I like a normal speed to the voice of the narrators.

[Scott S.]

I just found out that WMP has a faster setting. It doesn't specify what speed it is, I'm guessing 120%.

It's crazy that you can speed up some books without a noticeable drop in quality.

[Shawn]

I actually had never thought to do this. Thanks for the suggestion and the listing of apps that allow you to use this function. I am normally doing something else when I listen to audio books so I am not sure if this will work for me but I will try next time I am driving or walking (as opposed to reading emails etc).

[Scott S.]

I occasionally do a little unintentional and unwanted "speed listening". Every once in a while the radio in my truck will find a format that it doesn't like and jumps into full blown chipmunk mode. I'll usually listen for a minute or so just for the laugh.

[Joel]

i recently switched from an android phone to the iphone and needed a new app to speed playback of my non-audible books (itunes doesn't go fast enough for me, as "2x" is really more like "1.4x"). i can highly recommend Swift Player, which integrates nicely with itunes but also apparently works for YouTube and other apps. i think it was $2.99.

it allows speedup up to 3x (real 3x, too, not the audible version of 3x which is really 2x -- but going faster than 2x seems to result in a lot of clipping, and is too fast to focus generally anyway). and it does all the other stuff i want in a player like allow bookmarking and skipping back 30 seconds with a swipe, etc.