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Following what has been said in another thread (viewtopic.php?f=14&t=62058), playback speed may be adjusted, but there is no way to set a customized playback speed that remains constant when playing a list.
So a feature that permitted to save a default playback speed setting other than the x1.00 would be useful.

There are many many threads with people asking how to do this on the help forums. Very many people want this feature to listen to audio books and video lectures. It's particularly important with the rise in usage of mobile devices like android phones.

I would like to "third" this feature (in the thread), though I think it's more clear if we refer to it as "Lock Playback Speed," because VLC already allows you to customize playback speed.

I'd like to see a simple check that would lock the speed at whatever I've got it across files/tracks. I'm mostly agnostic as to whether the speed you're set at would be session specific (as Windows Media Player's is) or persistent across both instances and time--I probably favor per-session, but that may be simply out of habit.

The checkbox I want could be either a preference, where one chooses they prefer play-speed locking all the time or don't, or one that's by the play-speed controls in both the file bar and the information bar. Here I'd favor the latter for simplicity, but the former would certainly increase new-feature-visibility. The third option is just to change the behavior without making it a preference, but some may like not needing to reset to 1x at track transitions (I certainly don't).

is this feature still in the pipeline - 2 years since last post?

It would be handy to have if you have 10 chapters of an audiobook where you want to lock the playback speed to be the same on all.
All that would be needed is a lock button to fix the playback speed. When vlc exits, it is reset.

Use VLC 1.2, where it is implemented.