1395158 - PocketCasts audio distortion at 2.7x playback speed

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P3)

Description

[shanks.k]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:55.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/55.0
Build ID: 20170816210634

Steps to reproduce:

Play a podcast using the PocketCasts web player. Change the playback speed to 2.7x and notice there is severe audio distortion. 

This does not occur using Chrome, but only Firefox


Actual results:

Audio distortion when playing audio at 2.7x speed in PocketCasts web player


Expected results:

Audio should not be distorted

Comment 1

[shanks.k]

According to the devs of PocketCasts this is a bug with the browser itself

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/pocketcasts/comments/6x746g/webplayer_distortion_on_firefox/

The variable speed stuff is actually done inside the browser itself. To my knowledge only Chrome ships with a plugin that does voices nicely, Safari and Firefox are optimised for music...which is odd because how many people do you know that speed up music?

Comment 2

[Jon]

I believe Edge speeds things up just fine too. This is the same problem that Firefox has with speeding up video, by the way. I'm also really looking forward to a fix!