Appmuse

Amazing! Works perfectly for listening to lecture podcasts. I was frustrated with QuickTime Player and iTunes being unable to have both these features (skip forward/backward and change playing speed). This app even lets you customize how many seconds to skip and also what hotkey/shortcut for the playing speed, as well as playing speed presets (default is by factor of 0.5x, so 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, etc.) Show more

It has pitch correction which is nice. $4 seems like a lot for what it is. But there are no other options, so I guess demand is higher than supply.

Having recently gotten into several podcasts, I’ve become dependent on being able to speed them up on my phone and this offers similar functionality within iTunes (rather than having to open each episode invididually via QuickTime)… a great convenience. Not being able to speed up DRM-enabled media is an unfortunate limitation, but this is simple and enabling for heavy podcast (and similar) listeners. Arguably iTunes should have this built-in, but until then—thanks for offering this complementary utility! Show more

Playback doesn’t work for any speed than the usual.

Hi. I love this but I have a lot problems using it. 1. I have to login to icloud every time I open it after upgrade. 2. There’s a “Opening URL” in iTunes that crashes the app. Overall, it works only half the time. Show more

Most audiobooks are too slow at 1.0 and too fast at 1.50. They really need a 1.25 option.

Very disappointed that there are only a few fixed speed values, not a continuous setting.

The ONLY way this works is if you DOWNLAOD the entire podcast episode and listen to it that way; it does not work when STREAMING podcasts. I spent a long time trying to figure out why it wouldn’t play, and I didn’t see those instructions ANYWHERE on their site. When you download a podcast episode and listen to it using this app, you hear what sounds like TWO COPIES playing at the SAME TIME. It is VERY distracting and is NOT AT ALL like the speed up function in the Podcast app in iTunes. I sincerly hope that Apple builds faster playback for podcasts in the new version of iTunes, this is a POORLY MADE work around that BARELY does what it says it will do. Show more

I can’t get it to work with audio books in iTunes either from Audible or not.

Currently this app is working for me…. mostly. I’m using iTunes 12.3 and on my mp3 audiobooks it usually works. It’s a little strange or echoey at times, but I get used to that pretty quickly. However, when playing multiple tracks, when one track ends, as it starts the next track there’s often a little weirdness, some repeated and indecipherable words. This Speed-Up app is currently my favorite as it stays playing in iTunes (versus some alternatives that use QuickTime instead — google for itunes script applescript for playback speed to check them out). Show more

I really like Speed-Up! Like rvncto said, it is not a separate app, it adds additional features to iTunes, and that’s exactly what I was looking for. I want my podcasts and audiobooks on my Mac’s iTunes to sync with my IOS devices while being able to play them at higher speeds. I heard a small amount of choppiness at 2.0x, but I didn't hear it at 1.75x. Using Preferences for Speed-Up, it allows you to select any speeds, from .25x to 3.0x to show up on the drop down menu. Also, it lets you select either, Podcasts, Music & Audiobooks, or both, in the Preferences. It also lets you to reset playback speed, or not, when you change songs. To me, Speed-Up does everything it says it does, and more. Show more

This app hasn’t been updated since 2013, but luckily Apple hasn’t changed much since then and thus its working on my 2015 MBPr w/ 10.11 El Capitan It works surprising well and integrates with iTunes without any issues. Thanks for letting me listen to my podcasts at my choice of speeds! (x.25-x3.0) Show more

I bought this app to listen to podcasts. The app does what it says, speeds up playback, however the quality of the audio is awful. As others have stated, there is an echo even at the 1.5 rate. Not sure if I will continue using the app because even trying to adjust with the equalizer the sound is quite annoying. Show more

Using this app to speed up a lecture on iMac. Works well at 1.5s, but really needs 1.25x and 1.75x playback options. It depends on the speaker if 1.5x gives intelligible playback. Show more

I am the perfect audience for this app. I listen to audio (podcasts or audiobooks) ALL THE TIME and speeding it up will save me a ton of frustration! I normally listen on my phone but wanted to listen on my computer as well so I figured I’d give Speed-Up a try. Sadly, like other users I am getting a weird echo during playback when I try to speed it up. To be fair, this same problem seems to be present for the Overdrive Media Console App as well. Both offer playback speed adjustment. Both have strange echo in the background. I am assuming that both apps are running into the same backend problem. The problem with Overdrive was what drove me to use Speed-Up as an alternative. I thought I had found the solution, but so far I have been proven wrong. Running on a Macbook Pro OSX 10.9.5 iTunes 12.1.0.50 Show more

I would like to clear out the bad reputations this software used to have. As current version - 1.2.3 is working. And a nice and expected feature is that I can define my own speed. Like my favoriate is 1.25x Show more

I have a 2013 mbp. With the latest Yosemite. and iTunes 12.0.1 i see this thing has a lot of 2 and 1 star reviews. And only one review for the latest version. And that review is a bad one. However the description of the functionality fits exactly what i wanted to a tee, that I went ahead and risked the 1.99$ anyway. What i wanted was an addition of functionality to iTunes… not a seperate app. It works exactly as i expected. Basically it allows me to listen to podcasts (which i have downloaded… not streaming) at 1.5 - 2x speed. It is not a seperate app. Its just added functionality to Itunes in an extra playback speed. It is an icon that sits in the task bar (up top) and has a selection of speeds. Thats it. easy peasy. I don’t notice any of the echoing or reverb other people have noted in reviews of earlier versions Show more

I bought this because I saw there were people who claimed this worked for audiobooks. IT DOES NOT. Don’t waste your money on this.

Would be good without playback. PLEASE FIX ASAP!!!

I used this app before for podcasts and now after a few mos. it no longer works. I’ve tried redownloading and nada! Would not recommend it.