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Adjustable play speed, 1.25x, 1.5 speed

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 22, 2018
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Is there a feature to speed up play? This is a useful and common feature on other podcasts and audiobook apps.

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Best answer by Keith N

Hello there, Jorts1302. Thanks for posting and welcome to the Community. Currently, this feature isn't available on Sonos. In the meantime, I am happy to forward this topic along to the team for consideration and visibility. Thanks again for the feedback and keep it coming.

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julianjcardona

Lyricist I

Come on Sonos, you can do it!

Or perhaps, you have to do it…

Is there another place where we should voice our thoughts that may help progress the situation?

Airgetlam

That might be a feature added in after the ‘legacy/modern’ split in May, but I would imagine that Sonos would have to update their API, publish it, and then get the third parties to pull it in to their own server code. I’d imagine it doesn’t exist in the current API codebase.

i.e not a quick change to implement, but not impossible.

Bruce

controlav

Lead Maestro

That might be a feature added in after the ‘legacy/modern’ split in May, but I would imagine that Sonos would have to update their API, publish it, and then get the third parties to pull it in to their own server code. I’d imagine it doesn’t exist in the current API codebase.

Sonos could do it today for local files only (at the risk of doubling bandwidth, exacerbating weak wifi connections), but for music service support it would be a notable API change. Few music services support the existing audiobook interfaces today (with 30-second jump and saving location).

Author of the leading independent Sonos apps for Android, MacOS, iOS, Windows and Xbox.

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F P

Lyricist I

One more vote here.

Can't do Audiobooks, Podcasts etc without this. Will be resorting to competing product which support this.

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JaneMW

Lyricist I

Just FYI, Sonos rarely gives out information about what's in the development queue. Features are generally announced when the release date is secure or the day that an update to provide the feature is available.

Also, it may be a good idea to talk to Audible or whatever podcast streamer you use. It may be that they need to provide an option to change the play speed when playing through Sonos, not Sonos itself.

I’d be happy to contact my related service providers (who allow speed variation) if the Sonos service confirmed they were being prevented by those 3rd parties from adding this feature. All I hear is crickets from Sonos and users guessing at the problem. Who ultimately needs to do something to make this happen? What’s the point of having an expensive home system if using another device and headphones is the only way to listen at the speed you want?

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DrInsomnia

Lyricist I

I’ll add another voice needing this feature. I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I can only listen to half as many if I’m using Sonos instead of my phone, and I just don’t want to have ear buds in all day long.

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Bappy

Lyricist I

Yes that will be a great feature as I can’t use my Sonos since the reading is too slow 🐌 🙂

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AG123

Lyricist I

Yeah, this is pretty silly that Sonos doesn’t offer this. It’s big enough of an issue that I don’t want to expand my system until it’s available. Podcasts and audio books are unworkable.

radyohead

Trending Lyricist I

I've been checking on this feature on and off for about 4 years. Progress so far: nil.

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inkoherence

Lyricist I

Any news on this? Come on, this is a must.