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Hi! I LOVE Podtrapper! Here's one of those "I'm sure it's not possible but it never hurts to ask" things: It'd be great to be able to speed up playback to shorten podcasts. (Some might want to slow them down for things like language study, too?) Not a dramatic range, but something similar to the Windows Media Player options. I didn't spot that mentioned here already (maybe I missed it?) and I realize it probably has some huge technical hurdles in its way... but it'd be nice!

Heh, I'd actually love to see this feature too. Unfortunately I (and as far as I know, all 3rd party players) use the internal media player to actually playback the files, so we're limited to the functionality it provides and adjusting playback speed isn't one of them

Sorry I don't have a better answer for you.

-Marcus

Found this link on BlackBerry Developers site
http://www.blackberry.com/developers/do ... ntrol.html

Looks like it only applies to 4.6 code and above, so possibly a deal breaker, but I can wish

It's actually in the 4.2.1 docs as well here:
http://www.blackberry.com/developers/do ... ntrol.html

But it's actually part of the base J2ME spec and implementations (like the BB OS) are free to not implement it. As far as I know the BB OS doesn't, at least I've never seen it presented (I just checked in the Storm simulator [4.7] to be sure).

Personally I'd much rather see them make the media player more reliable, but rate control would be cool too. I'll take what I can get.

-Marcus