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How to Change Playback Speed in VLC Player?

VLC Media Player is a free and open-source software program that helps play audio and videos in any format. Most of the users around the world still use VLC players to watch their favorite movies and songs. Many people don’t know that VLC has an audio playback speed feature.

This feature will make the currently played audio play faster , slower , or at normal speed. You can do this with a few clicks or use the keyboard shortcuts. This tutorial will guide you to know the steps needed to change audio playback speed in the VLC media player program on your system.

Playback speed in VLC
Playback speed

Features of VLC

  • This software almost supports every video and audio file format and plays every media.
  • It is used to convert any medial file formats without using additional plugins.
  • VLC can stream media over the local network as well as on the internet.
  • It supports many platforms like Windows , Mac, ** and **Linux.
  • This program helps to watch videos crisply and clearly.
  • It is ranked amongst the most advanced and *progressive * softwares.

Change Audio Playback Speed in VLC

Kindly follow the below-given instructions to change the audio playback speed in VLC Player.

  • First, you need to launch ** the VLC Media Player ** program on your PC.
  • Go to the Media tab , and select ** the **Open File option from the menu.

Open File option
Open File option

  • It will open the Explorer window, where you need to locate the audio file you want to play.
  • Then, select the audio file and click the Open button.

Hit the Open button
Hit the Open button

  • To change the playback speed of your audio file, you have to go to the Playback tab and select the Speed option.
  • In the submenu , you will see the playback options such as Faster , Slower , Normal speed.

Setting Playback Speed
Playback Speed

VLC Playback Options:

Playback Options Description
Faster 2x speed
Faster (fine) 1x
Normal Speed 0x
Slower (fine) -1x to -1.75x
Slower -2x
  • If you click the Faster option, then it will increase the speed of your audio.

Playback Tab
Playback Tab

  • To decrease the speed of audio, you have to click the Slower option.

Select Slower option
Select Slower option

  • Selecting the Normal speed ** option will **play the audio normally , which means there is no change in the playback speed.

Setting Normal Speed
Normal Speed

Keyboard Shortcuts to Change Playback Speed

You can also use the VLC keyboard shortcuts to control the speed of the audio playing in the VLC Player.

  • [ (Left Square Bracket) – You can click this button on your keyboard to reduce the playing speed of audio in VLC.
  • ] (Right Square Bracket) – This key will raise or increase the audio playback speed.
  • = (Equal to) – It is used to get back to the normal playing speed.

Verdict

This tutorial guided you on how to change audio playback speed in the VLC media player program on your system with simple steps. You can check out more VLC related posts on our site, vlc.guru.

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