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Thanks for the feedback, looks like you're not the only one. Personally I enjoy it, but I can understand that some might find it distracting.

I just need to figure out a way to implement a toggle for the music, while also playing nicely with the playback speed etc.

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I enjoy it as well. Makes it easier to listen for me, voice alone is droning.

the music is more distracting at higher speeds for me and i usually listen at 1.5x when walking or at the gym. you could have the music be a separate audio track where the playback speed doesnt impact it and the toggle plays it simultaneously with the vocal track or not.

The issue is that the voice track will be shorter than the music track if you speed it up. So you'll have the music playing until the end, but the voice track ending before that. It's definitely possible, just a bit more complex to implement. Maybe when I have the feature to mute the music, I can just mute the music when the speed is changed?

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