Playing Audiobooks at a faster speed than usual

[coscell at ebtnet.net]

You may refer to mplayer, it supported so many formats.
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Mario Lang wrote:

> "Stoppard" <stoppard at ntlworld.com> writes:
> 
> > Will this program work with DAISY CD's or do they need to be converted to
> > mp3's?
> 
> Most DAISY CD's contain mp3 files.  However, they usually consist of more
> than just one file.  You will want to use a full fledged DAISY player
> to actually play DAISY CD's.  Note that listen-up is a free
> project which can play DAISY CD's.  I originally wanted to
> add the time stretching/compressing capabilities to listen-up
> directly, but the Audio library which is used (OSALP) does
> not allow this as far as I can see.  So I started to write
> this command-line tool, so that it could later be reused by other
> programs, such as Emacspeak, to play DAISY content.
> 
> > I take it your program can be used for playing mp3's?
> Yes, currently only for mp3's.  Support for Ogg is planned, but not written
> yet.  I have to implement seeking first, to make it sort of complete
> in itself.
> 
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