Make output samplerate independent of -speed The samplerate requested from the audio out depended on the initial value of playback speed on startup. Changing speed later at runtime does not affect output samplerate; audio is always resampled instead. Change the init code so that speed does not affect the samplerate requested and behavior matches what you'd get by starting the file with speed 1 and then changing it. The previous behavior could be desirable when using a constant speed value. However it means that if you start with a low speed and later switch to normal speed then audio will be resampled to a low output frequency. You can still use -srate to explicitly select the frequency.