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How do I increase or decrease the playback speed in rhythmbox 3.0.1 the way its possible on VLC using [ and ] keys? I am fine if I need to install a plugin for this.

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RBPitch

What you describe fits nicely into the capabilities of an external plugin called RBPitch.

From the launchpad description:

rbpitch is a plugin for Rhythmbox that lets you change the pitch, tempo, and speed in real-time while playing a song. The main features of rbpitch include:

*Change the pitch and tempo of your music independently of each other.

*Change the "speed", which is pitch+tempo scaled together without aliasing.

to install - for RB2.96 & RB 2.97

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:smcnam/rbpitch-release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rbpitch

In Rhythmbox, go to the Plugins manager via the Edit -> Plugins menu. Make sure the checkbox next to "Pitch and Tempo Shifting" is checked.

RB2.98 and beyond

There hasn't been any code changes since the RB2.97 release - thus this plugin is only applicable for Ubuntu 12.04 & 12.10.

Considerable changes to the Rhythmbox menu structure etc has been made since RB 2.99 - so whilst it may be possible to switch your sources back to 12.10 to get it to run on RB2.98/RB2.99 and RB3.0, I'm doubtful. Its probably better to throw an issue onto the OP's issue tracker to see future plans.

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    It seems like I am stuck with an unrolvable dependency if I change the source to 12.10, that of installing librhythmbox-core6, which is obsolete. Some other workaround possible?
    – jobin
    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:02
  • It is a C++ plugin - thus will need compiling. You may have some luck with creating a symbolic link to librhythmbox-core6.so.0 (or whatever the library is called) - as I said, I'm doubtful - its better to contact the OP. I know he is still active since he pops up on the rhythmbox mailing list occasionally.
    – fossfreedom
    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:04
  • Filed a bug as you said: bugs.launchpad.net/rbpitch/+bug/1300752
    – jobin
    Apr 1, 2014 at 12:14
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    The rbpitch page at launchpad.net now says that "Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest supported release of Ubuntu that will work with rbpitch, and many versions later than 12.04 but earlier than 16.04 will not work."
    – THelper
    Jun 23, 2018 at 22:16

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