Audacity's Play-at-Speed Toolbar enables one to change the playback speed, but is there a way of changing the playback speed without the pitch changing?
Changing VLC's playback speed has no effect on its pitch.
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Sign up to join this communityAudacity's Play-at-Speed Toolbar enables one to change the playback speed, but is there a way of changing the playback speed without the pitch changing?
Changing VLC's playback speed has no effect on its pitch.
Audacity is rather simplistic in approach. It doesn't seem to have the subtlety required to do this in real-time.
It has an option - Effect > Change Tempo…
See the manual pages at - Change Tempo