Speed Up or Slow Down Spotify Playback While 3D modeling

💡 Overview

Spoken content rarely suits normal speed. Viewports and node editors eat both screens and your GPU.

Playback rate runs from 0.5x to 2.0x, with presets at 1.0x, 1.25x, 1.5x and 2.0x. The extension locks the rate so it persists as tracks change, rather than snapping back to normal every time a new item starts. That matters for podcasts and audiobooks, and can be fun for slowing music down to learn a part.

🧭 A Day of 3D Artists

Viewports and node editors eat both screens and your GPU.

The problem: Jumping out of a heavy viewport to skip a song is slow on a busy machine.

The fix: Choose a controller with no background polling so your GPU headroom goes to the viewport.

🚀 Try It in Three Steps

1. Open the popup and pick a speed preset.
2. Choose 1.25x or 1.5x for podcasts, or 0.5x to study a passage slowly.
3. Return to 1.0x with one tap when you want normal speed.

✨ What You Get

• Mouse-wheel volume: Scroll over the player for fine volume steps, plus one-tap mute memory.
• Dynamic album-art backdrops: A blurred, color-adaptive background drawn from the current artwork, in dark or light theme.
• Floating mini-player: Popup with play, pause, next, previous, shuffle, repeat, seek and a Liked Songs toggle.

Note: it works with the Spotify Web Player at open.spotify.com only, and does not control the desktop app.

📸 See It in Action

Mini-Player

Dashboard

Shortcuts

❓ Frequently Asked Questions