MP3 double speed

[Willia...@gmail.com]

Greetings,

I listen to audio books. Normally I listen to a book in a compressed
time period by speeding it up. The problem is that I can only use my
computer to listen to books "speed up". Does anyone know how to
recompress an mp3 so that it plays back in a shorter time period (or a
wav file which I could then convert to an mp3?) If you could actually
give me a command line example that would be what I would consider a
"best case" response. I am using an IBM R50p running FC3 (*Linux).

Thanks,
William

PS: About a week ago I posted that "I need to be able to determine the
play duration of an mp3 from the command line in Linux. What is my
best option?" and I still have no responses.

[seani]

[snip]

>
> PS: About a week ago I posted that "I need to be able to determine the
> play duration of an mp3 from the command line in Linux. What is my
> best option?" and I still have no responses.

Answered against your original post.

[Mike Archer]

In article <1136484944.8...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Willia...@gmail.com says...

> Greetings,
>
> I listen to audio books. Normally I listen to a book in a compressed
> time period by speeding it up. The problem is that I can only use my
> computer to listen to books "speed up". Does anyone know how to
> recompress an mp3 so that it plays back in a shorter time period (or a
> wav file which I could then convert to an mp3?) If you could actually
> give me a command line example that would be what I would consider a
> "best case" response. I am using an IBM R50p running FC3 (*Linux).
>

You need a audio editor. 'Audacity' would seem to be a good option for
Linux, it can increase the speed of an audio file without increasing the
pitch (IE: It won't sound like the smurfs when you play it back :)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[Hammerer]

<Willia...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Greetings,
>
Greetings!

>
> I listen to audio books. Normally I listen to a book in a compressed
> time period by speeding it up. The problem is that I can only use my
> computer to listen to books "speed up". Does anyone know how to
> recompress an mp3 so that it plays back in a shorter time period (or a
> wav file which I could then convert to an mp3?)
>

Never having listened to an audio-book in my life, I'm afraid I can't help
you there, Will. But I sense that this whole area is a problem, and I've
come up with a possible solution.

Why not join me in a letter-writing petition to the manufacturers of these
"audio-books", and demand that they release "printed" versions (on paper)?
That way, you could easily control the "speed" at which they could be read
by simply reading faster, or even skipping whole pages/chapters. And think
of the benefits to the hearing-impaired!

[Willia...@gmail.com]

Greetings Hammer,

You don't need to write to the publishers. They already have all the
books you could ever want on paper. I can't even name an
audio-book-only book. If you find an audio book you like chances are
you can get it on paper for even less... maybe even in the very same
store.

Hope this helps,
William

[Hammerer]

<Willia...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Greetings Hammer,
>
Greetings!

>
> You don't need to write to the publishers.
>

Yeah! Being audio-book publishers, I suppose I could tape-record a letter
and send it to them on cassette or CD!

>
> They already have all the books you could ever want on paper.
> I can't even name an audio-book-only book. If you find an audio
> book you like chances are you can get it on paper for even less...
> maybe even in the very same store.
>

They do that? Wow. It's great what they can do nowadays, isn't it? The
question is, though, will these "paper"-based books catch on? Will people
want to buy them?
>
> Hope this helps,
> William
>
It sure did, Will. Thanks. You learn something every day!

[anthonyberet]

Willia...@gmail.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I listen to audio books. Normally I listen to a book in a compressed
> time period by speeding it up.

Wow that's cool. if you find a book you really like you can slow it
right down to make it last longer. If only all areas of life were as
good as computers :(

[Willia...@gmail.com]

You could always make computers your life.

[Don M.]

<Willia...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I've heard it has happened already, in his case, yes. :)

Don

[anthonyberet]

Hmmmm I do do *some* other stuff you know.
- Not wanting to let the side down, but still....