Hi. Some of you might know the feature of those nice and shiny hardware DAISY Digital Talking Book players to speed up and slow down the natural speech by a certain amount. To bring this feature to Linux, I've begun writting a very simple command-line mp3 player which can do this for you. Currently, it only supports setting the tempo as a floating point value somewhere between 0.1 (10%) and 6.0 (600%) of the original speed. This is done with the command-line option -t (tempo). It can already be used nicely to listen to Audiobooks in mp3 format. A command like $ yatm -t 1.2 /some/path/audiobook.mp3 should do this for you. It can also be useful for listening to stuff like guitar solos, if you want to figure out how they're actually played, just play the track at about %70 speed (-t 0.7). Where to get it? Download the first version from http://delysid.org/yatm-0.1.0.tar.gz Build instructions: You'll need libmad, a MPEG audio decoder library, libao, a cross-platform audio output library, and libsoundtouch, a library for changing tempo/pitch/rate. Install all three libraries, untar the archive, changing into the yatm-0.1.0 subdirectory and run: ./configure make make install If you are using Debian, you can also run: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us sudo dpkg -i ../yatm_0.1.0-1_`dpkg --print-architecture`.deb Any comments are welcome. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> | Get my public key via finger mlang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list