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[Feature] Playback speed presets above 2.0x #1913
Description
What problem does this solve?
The playback speed sheet tops out at 2.0x. The presets are 0.5x, 0.65x, 0.8x, 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x and 2.0x, and there is no way to select anything higher — there is no custom speed input anywhere in the app, and the speed stepping actions (speed up / speed down / reset) operate over the same fixed list.
This is limiting for the cases where people normally want to go faster:
- Audiobooks, lectures and podcasts, where 2.5x–3x is a common listening speed.
- Skimming or re-watching content you have already seen, where 3x–4x is useful.
- Filler episodes, recaps and intros, where 5x is often handy.
Other Jellyfin clients and general-purpose players let you go past 2x, so users coming from those hit this ceiling straight away.
Nothing technical is stopping it: the playback backend already supports arbitrary rates. The cap is only the hardcoded preset list.
Proposed solution
Add larger presets — at minimum 2.5x, 3.0x, 3.5x, 4.0x and 5.0x.
Even better would be making the preset list user-configurable in playback settings (a comma-separated list, or a multi-select), so people can choose their own set instead of the app imposing a global ceiling. A "custom speed" entry in the sheet would also solve it.
When going above 2x, it would be worth forcing audio pitch correction on and preferring scaletempo2 over the default scaletempo, since audio quality at 3x and above is noticeably better. Audio naturally degrades at very high rates regardless of algorithm, but that is expected and not a reason to cap it at 2x.
Platform
All / Not platform-specific
Server
Both / Not server-specific
Alternatives considered
Loading a custom mpv.conf containing speed=2.5 does change the actual playback rate, but it does not add anything to the sheet: the UI still shows 0.5x–2.0x, and the displayed speed no longer matches the real one. It is also a per-machine workaround rather than a setting, so it does not help on other platforms.
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github-actions commentedon Oct 18, 2026
Thanks for the report, @PainKiller0x0.
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