Jul 19
Audio Speed Control & Quick Skip Navigation
We would love to see audio playback speed control and quick skip navigation added to the app.
For example, similar to podcast apps, users could:
Adjust playback speed (e.g., 1x, 1.5x, 2x) to listen faster or slower.
Skip forward or backward in 10-second intervals for easier navigation.
This feature would be especially helpful for our church services, as they can be quite long. It would allow listeners to go through teachings at their preferred pace and easily revisit key moments.
Completed
Hi Jp, We said we would come back the moment playback speed shipped, so here it is. Both halves of your request are now live. Speed: the Podcast player adds a speed button with six presets, 0.8x, 1x, 1.2x, 1.5x, 1.8x and 2x, and a fine tuning row that moves the value by 0.1 per press. The full range is 0.5x to 3x. No Save button, the speed applies the moment it is picked and stays written on the button. Skip: as covered in our earlier reply, previous and next track give way to skip back and skip forward inside the episode, with the interval you set in the Skip intervals block, from 10 to 60 seconds. Both work on iOS, Android and the PWA. Long church services are exactly the case this was built for, and the third control the Podcast player brings, a sleep timer, is worth a look for the same reason. That one is native, so it runs on iOS and Android but not on the PWA. Everything is here, control by control: https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/podcast-player-the-controls-… Rebuild and publish your apps for your listeners to get it. Thanks for the detail in the original request, the two examples you gave are what made it easy to act on.