Speed Up or Slow Down Spotify Playback While cooking with a laptop on the counter

💡 Overview

Spoken content rarely suits normal speed. Your hands are wet, floury or busy, and your laptop shows a recipe.

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 Home Cooks

Your hands are wet, floury or busy, and your laptop shows a recipe.

The problem: Touching the trackpad with messy hands to change a song is a small disaster.

The fix: Use a single key combination with a clean knuckle rather than hunting for a tab with the mouse.

🚀 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

• 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.
• Local focus analytics: Daily and weekly focus time, a seven-day chart and top artists and tracks, all stored on your device.

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