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I'm still bitter that they removed variable speed and variable pitch playback. It was invaluable, and there was no reason to remove it.
by afandian 5y ago
I'm still bitter that they removed variable speed and variable pitch playback. It was invaluable, and there was no reason to remove it.
- tomaskafka 5y agoOne reason to remove the features is if they started supoorting another format (HEVC? ProRes?) for which thir decoder doesn't yet support these operations?
- afandian 5y agoEven if that were the true motivation (which I don't believe), there's a standard UI paradigm for that: grey out the control if it doesn't apply. I'm more inclined to believe that it was a UX designer with a misplaced drive to simplify at all costs.
- ashearer 5y agoOn Catalina at least, variable-speed constant-pitch playback is still available, just hidden. Option-click on the fast-forward or rewind buttons to access it. It jumps in increments of 0.1x.
- afandian 5y agoThanks, I didn't know that! It doesn't let you go slower than 1x speed though, which was the useful thing. I used to use it to learn tunes by playing half speed.
- seba_dos1 5y agomacOS is full of things that randomly pop up if you click something while holding a button. That UX is so hilariously bad it makes features hard to find even when you already know they are there!