I've never tried the ipod without the rockbox. Does the ipod's variable speed keep the original pitch while speeding up the track? This sometimes makes it sound like pieces are cut out but some prefer that to the very high pitch which is the alternative.

> The iPod pitch shifting for audio books sounds terrible to my ears. The
> acceleration sounds like they're removing slices of sound from the audio
> stream instead of smoothly compressing the time. I hope Rockbox does better.
> I haven't used it since my Archos FMR got too broken to use as a portable
> device.
>
> O
Received on 2006-07-27