My Podcast Started Doing Helium Today 😳

Ricky · February 7, 2019, 11:35pm

Turned on Focus, (of COURSE I listen to MacSparky), and they sound like chipmunks! YIKS. Using Apple’s Podcast App, so as far as I know, ya can’t speed it up. Checked other podcast too, same results. Any ideas?

Rebooted the iPhone. Same thing.

lsaami · February 8, 2019, 12:15am

bottom left hand corner of the player, change the speed to 1X.

Ricky · February 8, 2019, 12:20am

I will be a son-of-a-gun. I didn’t realize that was there! Thanks! They sound normal again.

lsaami · February 8, 2019, 12:21am

no problem! glad to help.

sotojuan · February 8, 2019, 2:06am

If you want to play the podcast faster without this happening, I recommend Overcast!

RichardC · February 8, 2019, 4:55am

Other apps don’t have the same features?

KirkS · February 12, 2019, 2:28pm

I listen to all my podcasts at 1.5X Give it a chance, you’ll like it.

bowline · February 12, 2019, 4:54pm

In Pocket Casts I listen to podcasts at 1.3x and with pauses deleted with older hosts and those for whom English is not the first language (like Stacktrace) because they speak more slowly. Everyone else is 1.2x tops.

It all adds up.