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Play speed in Catalina Podcasts app

Sure would be nice to have the ability to play podcasts at faster than 1x speed. We never had it in iTunes in Mojave and earlier, but now that Podcasts is its own app I was sure hoping this would make it to the macOS version within Catalina.

Posted on Oct 11, 2019 9:08 AM

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Nov 14, 2019 8:33 PM in response to Viper3773

I was very reluctant to upgrade to Catalina with the loss of smart playlists and after I did I discovered the horrible sound you describe when listening to 1.5X or 2X, like a tin can. The audio on my computer is also cutting out as I test it listening at 2X.


This really has to be fixed! It seems they just threw in the faster playback speeds and didn't implement any kind of sound technology to improve the sound at faster speeds like all the podcast apps on the market. Very lazy. Good thing this doesn't occur on the phone with the podcast app.

Play speed in Catalina Podcasts app

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