Speed Up or Slow Down Spotify Playback While working night shifts

💡 Overview

Spoken content rarely suits normal speed. Quiet hours and tired eyes make every extra click harder.

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 Night Shift Workers

Quiet hours and tired eyes make every extra click harder.

The problem: Bright tabs and small controls are unkind at 3 a.m.

The fix: Use dark mode in the popup and the volume wheel to keep everything gentle.

🚀 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.
• Shortcut profiles: Standard, one-handed WASD, compact Alt+arrows and function-key presets.
• Four default hotkeys: Shift+Alt+Up toggles play and pause, Right skips, Left goes back and Down pauses only.

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