Posted by Mike Archer on 11/16/23 11:36

In article <1136484944.824390.180830@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
William.Deans@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/

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