[simondotau]

Same. Returning to 1x speed makes people sound (to my 2x-abused ears) drunk and slurring their works. If I want to listen to something slowly and carefully, I will just about tolerate 1.25x.

What really frustrates me is watching/listening to discussion of music, because I am forced to listen to the talking at 1x because the music sounds wrong (and is wrong) at anything other than 1x.

[kevin_thibedeau]

The funny thing is that slow talkers sound normal at 2x speed. It's jarring when you hear their actual speech.

[ghaff]

I listen to podcasts at 1x. But there are a few people I've done podcasts with that I do various audio tricks to speed up.

[bonoboTP]

And then there is Dwarkesh who sounds like 2x on 1x.

[ngcazz]

Norman Finkelstein is a notable example of this.

[BurningFrog]

Playing music at 1x should be a pretty simple feature to add to those apps.

Ideally it should be done while encoding.