# Plexamp how does silence skipping button work?

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**Category:** Plex Labs\
**Tags:** server-nvidia-shield, plexamp\
**Created:** [October 9, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-how-does-silence-skipping-button-work/814112 "2022-10-09T03:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phoenix501](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/phoenix501/32/288433_2.png) [@Phoenix501](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Phoenix501)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-how-does-silence-skipping-button-work/814112/1 "2022-10-09T03:07:20Z")

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Trying to understand if this is a bug or how it’s supposed to work.

When playing my audiobooks, I click the double arrow symbol for silence skipping. Normally playback stays at 1.0x and doesn’t change anything.

If I manually adjust the playback speed slider with this button enabled though, this seems to trigger it to start working correctly. I see playback speed jump up and down by itself as silences are skipped. Sometimes doing this still nothing happens though.

This feature is really fantastic when working. How do I make it work consistently?

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**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-how-does-silence-skipping-button-work/814112/2 "2022-10-09T03:30:11Z")

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If it’s not speeding anything up, generally because there’s not enough silence for it to detect. Like if there’s some background noise or music or something like that.

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**Author:** ![Phoenix501](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/phoenix501/32/288433_2.png) [@Phoenix501](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Phoenix501)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-how-does-silence-skipping-button-work/814112/3 "2022-10-09T03:55:41Z")

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Thanks, this makes sense. Listening back, I think some of my audiobooks do have a slight hiss which I thought was silence. Have noticed the audiobooks it does work for I still have to move the playback speed slider sometimes to trigger it to work.

Two follow up questions:

- Does the silence skipping button override your playback speed slider? Or can they work together?
- Can you set a default playback speed for the Plexamp app in general?

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**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-how-does-silence-skipping-button-work/814112/4 "2022-10-09T05:44:38Z")

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> [@Phoenix501](#):
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> Does the silence skipping button override your playback speed slider? Or can they work together?

They work together, you can speed up and then eliminate silence to make even faster.

> [@Phoenix501](#):
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> Can you set a default playback speed for the Plexamp app in general?

Not currently, no.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-how-does-silence-skipping-button-work/814112/5 "2023-01-07T05:44:46Z")

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