Your MP3 is Too Fast: Fix it with One Command

You want to slow down an MP3. Fine. This is trivial. You use ffmpeg. It is the only tool you need for media manipulation on Linux.

To take your 100% speed MP3 down to 90%, you use the atempo audio filter.

Here is the command you need:

ffmpeg -i your_original_audio.mp3 -filter:a "atempo=0.85" your_slower_audio.mp3

Replace your_original_audio.mp3 with the path to your input file and your_slower_audio.mp3 with your desired output file name. The atempo=0.90 part tells ffmpeg to play the audio at 90% of its original speed without changing the pitch.

That is it. Do not overcomplicate these things.