Speeding Up Ira Glass

July 28, 2013 5:57 PM

I listen to podcasts at 2X speed. I'd like to listen to the This American Life archive the same way, but the online player doesn't seem to support it. Is there any way to force the Flash player to do this, or am I stuck at regular speed?
posted by tau_ceti to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

You can download last week's TAL from their podcast download, to your own podcast player. You can probably play it at 2x there?
posted by RustyBrooks at 6:03 PM on July 28, 2013

Also last I checked you can just plain download ALL the episodes, you just have to figure out the format of the link.
posted by RustyBrooks at 6:03 PM on July 28, 2013

I use Downcast on my iphone and it has options to change the speed.
posted by dawkins_7 at 6:55 PM on July 28, 2013

Response by poster: So to clarify, I have no issue with listening to the current episodes. However, the back episodes are not available for download (not for free, anyway), and so I'm mostly curious about altering playback within a flash player.
posted by tau_ceti at 7:05 PM on July 28, 2013

If there is an alternative HTML player, you could try this tip
posted by backwards guitar at 7:16 PM on July 28, 2013

The back episodes actually are available for download. NPR doesn't really do much to prevent you from getting them.
posted by saeculorum at 10:52 PM on July 28, 2013 [2 favorites]