[BRLTTY] Accessible way to slow down music?

[Lars Bjørndal]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:53:03PM +0100, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am looking for an accessible tool to slow down a song for which I
> can't hear the notes correctly when it's playing at the normal speed.
> 
> I tried with mplayer but there, slowing down also decreases the
> frequency so that's not working so well.
> 
> Is there a solution that would be accessible? Ideally a text-mode or
> commandline oriented tool would be nice but if there is some graphical
> tool which is accessible enough for this purpose that would also be
> acceptable.

Try: mplayer -speed 0.8 -af scaletempo <filename>

0.8 means 80% of normal speed.

Hope this helps.

Lars