On the iPhone I can speed up the playback of podcasts to 2x.
Is there a way to do the same in iTunes?
How to change the playback speed in iTunes
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Related Solutions
On iOS5, just right-swipe over a podcast episode to show the delete button. This isn't available on earlier versions.
I upgraded to iOS 6 yesterday, and it seems that this has been resolved itself, either through updates to iTunes or Podcasts.app (or both).
When I sync with my Mac, the podcasts I had listened to in Podcasts.app were correctly marked as played in iTunes. Yay!
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Best Answer
This is not natively possible in the Mac version of iTunes (nor Windows for the matter). You don’t mention if you have OS X or Windows. If you have the former, you have two choices:
1) If the podcast is an MP3 file, you can convert the file to an AAC file in iTunes (with an extension of m4a.) and then change the extension to m4b; the file becomes an audiobook which can be played faster if I am not mistaken.
2) Another alternative is to hear it in Quicktime, which has speed controls: Right click the file in iTunes and choose "Show In Finder”. Option-click the file (right click) and select “Open With…”, select QuickTime. Once in Quicktime option-click the "Accelerate" button to change the playback speed.