"playitslowly" media speed adjuster

[greengeek]

Hi, I would like to slow down some audio and video and there is a utility called "playitslowly" which sounds as if it would be handy. It uses python and I don't understand how to set it up correctly so I was wondering if anyone had the skills to make a pet that would allow it to run on Slacko 5.6 or similar.

https://29a.ch/playitslowly/

Thanks in advance.
cheers!

[slavvo67]

I looks interesting. I was going to give it a shot but I have Python2.7 and I'm afraid changing might ruin something else.

[greengeek]

I'm not sure how python works - maybe it is as simple as having the correct python installed and then the playitslowly binary would run, but there is also a file called "setup.py" which looks as if it needs to be run to link playitslowly to python somehow.

I did try to get it running (using the "legacy" tar.gz package) but got a python message saying "playitslowly module not found" - which tends to suggest that I have something in the wrong place.

The postinstall script contains the following:

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#!/bin/sh
gksu -u root -- python setup.py install
zenity --info --text "'Play it slowly' has been installed"

Hopefully someone with python experience will have no trouble spotting how to make the install script Puppy compatible and where the files should be put. Fingers crossed.

[Geoffrey]

What do you want to use it for, it don't play video, it only plays the audio content, I can't get it to work, I tried the playitslowly-1.4.0.tar.gz (Legacy), needs python-gstreamer, I get the app running but it crashes.

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No accelerated IMDCT transform found
Segmentation fault

[greengeek]

What do you want to use it for

My grandaughter likes to watch "Blues Clues" on youtube and there are various episodes that are loaded up in "speedy" mode - they have speeded the audio and video up to double normal rate. I thought there might be a way to make the audio track more understandable by slowing it down. Maybe I'm just getting too old and slow - maybe this is how they teach kids in schools these days...

Sample vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoRtMDW9Mc

[Geoffrey]

If you disable the flashplayer in firefox add-ons plugins, the video should use HTML5 which has a speed adjustment in the settings.
The sound in this video becomes a little choppy though.

[greengeek]

Thanks Geoffrey - useful information. I will pass that along to my daughter and see if their Mac supports that feature. Unfortunately my browser doesn't appear to support all the options - "quality" is there but "speed" is missing. Might try some other browsers.
cheers!

[zigbert]

if the request is to only reduce the tempo, pMusic can do that.

[greengeek]

if the request is to only reduce the tempo, pMusic can do that.

Thanks zigbert. I just tried this with my pmusic 4.5 but can't seem to find the same screen as you are using. I look in Tools, Plugins, Sound filter and I can see tempo controls but they do not respond to my mouse and I cannot change them. Any thoughts?
cheers!

[greengeek]

Ok, I got it now - I need to click the "power" button on the lower right hand corner in order to activate the plugin.
cheers!

[zigbert]

greengeek
You are just running an older version of pMusic...
The recent versions have included sound processing into the main audio-handling which makes it possible to change tempo for export (save) as well as for playing.

Oh yeah, I recommend to update to the most recent. Plenty of bugs are fixed, and it's overall stabilized.


Changelog
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Version 4.7.3 (13.Dec 2015)
- Revert to gzip compression for compatibility with older Puppies
- Bugfix: Correct update of album-art in main window.
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Version 4.7.2 (18.Nov 2015)
- Packed with xz compression
- Bugfix: Some gui-updates fails in Puppy 6.3.0 (gtkdialog checkbox: file-monitor="true" in combination with milliseconds="true")
- Bugfix: Builtin filebrowser doesn't work in Puppy 6.3.0
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Version 4.7.1 (4.Nov 2015)
- Preferences
. . . .- Bugfix: Moving data storage: Merge favorites.
. . . .- Bugfix: Moving data storage: Do not overwrite existing index file.
. . . .- Bugfix: Store state of search/smartadd docks (Slacko 6.1).
- Radio index updated
- 01micko.com is the prefered server (thanks to 01micko)
- Bugfix: RadioHits: Click 'start grabbing' without anything specified should give error msg.
- Bugfix: Splash at first run won't hide if running pmusic in backend mode. (thanks to don570)
- Bugfix: --help/-h parameter not working at first run.
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Version 4.7.0 (30.Aug 2015)
- Sound processing:
. . . .- New module for ffmpeg audio filtering.
. . . . . . . .- Bass
. . . . . . . .- Treble
. . . . . . . .- Normalize
. . . . . . . .- Tempo
. . . . . . . .- Fade in
. . . .- Change name in menu from Audio mixer to Sound processing.
. . . .- Used in 'Export' and 'Mixer' windows. Normalize still avaliable in preferences.
. . . .- Remove plugin 'Sound filter - Basic' from pet package.
- Export tracks in playlist:
. . . .- Include sound processing.
. . . .- Bugfix: volumedetect doesn't handle '` in filename.
- Mixer:
. . . .- Include sound processing module as 'Input'.
. . . .- Window is now scalable.
. . . .- Change name from Audio mixer to Sound processing.
- Preferences:
. . . .- Use 'Sound processing' module to set normalize.
- Masstagger: Clear-icon in every tag-field.
- Trackinfo:
. . . .- Bugfix: CD: If online CDDB is turned off, info for previous track is shown.
. . . .- Bugfix: CD: If missing meta-tracknr, length info misses in streaminfo.
- Plugins:
. . . .- New Plugin: 'Export Most Played' (not in pet).
. . . .- Remove plugin 'Sound filter - Basic' from pet package.
- Bugfix: Adding CD-audio track to playqueu (using libcddb) shows minutes (below 10) without leading 0.
- Bugfix: Sourcelist: Right-click menu: wrong menuitems for missing tracks in pmu (expanded album).
- Bugfix: Dependency check tells pfilesearch is missing if running version 2.x.
- Bugfix: Spelling errors. (thanks to don570)
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Version 4.6.4 (14.Jun 2015)
- Bugfix: Search only for radio stations when in Radio stream frontend
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Version 4.6.3 (11.Jun 2015)
- Bugfix: Store preferences values when running CD/Radio frontend.
- Bugfix: Won't play mixed playque when some tracks comes from CD-audio.
- Bugfix: Do not overwrite favorites at first run. (thanks to ASRI éducation)
- Bugfix: amazon albumart grabber search also for other stuff than music.
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Version 4.6.2 (16.May 2015)
- Albumart
. . . .- amazon.com as default albumart grabber. albumart.org now requires human verify and fails.
. . . .- Manual links to albumart.org, amazon.com and albumartexchange.com
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Version 4.6.1 (10.May 2015)
- Trackinfo:
. . . .- Album:
. . . . . . . .- Add edit button to open pmu in text editor.
. . . . . . . .- Add Album is now a menuitem in the right-click menu.
. . . .- Lyrics:
. . . . . . . .- Update lyricwiki.org to lyrics.wikia.com.
. . . . . . . .- Update elyrics.net.
. . . . . . . .- Remove azlyrics.com because of closed license.
- Audio mixer: New mute icon.
- Plugins: Top-Hits: Help button.
- Bugfix: Add xml info to the main svg icons (usr/share/icons/hilcolor/scalable/) (thanks to SFR)
- Bugfix: Rename file fails if filename contains '
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Version 4.6.0 (28.Mar 2015)
- New Radio-stream frontend:
. . . .- New frontend for streaming internet radio.
. . . .- Icons in sourcelist for country/genre.
. . . .- Faster browsing of radio stations.
. . . .- Filter favorite radio stations.
- Radio: If no index, click in sourcelist instead of msg.
- RadioHits: Add url and name as default if streaming radio.
- Right-click menu
. . . .- Sourcelist: Bugfix: Too many options for radio urls.
. . . .- Playqueue: Bugfix: urls gives option to send to masstagger.
- Use theme icons for all navigaton icons in buttons and menu.
- CD-frontend:
. . . .- Use pMusic icon in window heading.
. . . .- Bugfix: copy audio CD (with pBurn).
- Allow editing of command in myMusic editor.
- Trackinfo:
. . . .- Bugfix: Search alternative metatags corrupts db if chosen album is found twice at musicbrainz.org
. . . .- Bugfix: Album doesn't find length of track if track misses meta info.
- Updated Nad5
- Bugfix: Adding playlist including non-existing tracks loops on existing track.
- Bugfix: Missing button-icon for advanced search in Gtk theme.
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Version 4.5.1 (1.Mar 2015)
- Bugfix: pls playlist won't import if missing url file:// (thanks to don570)

[april]

I want one for porn too

[6502coder]

I want one for porn too

I'm afraid you're confused -- it's "Bang the Drum Slowly" (1973, Michael Moriarity, Robert De Niro), not "Bang the DRUMMER Slowly"