Hi Ahuka,

I listen to podcasts on a Sansa Clip+ synced from gPodder too! It's an excellent little player.

Speaking of the preprocessing, there is no need to do that if you install the open source Rockbox firmware on the player, https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/SansaClip. It works great and has a lot of features! There is a control to increase/decrease pitch and speed while playing; you need to enable the Timestretch option to change them separately (https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-sansaclipplus/rockbox-buildch4.html#x7-640004.3.3). It took me years before I figured out it was possible to separate the two.

Also great for podcasts are: auto resume from the previously paused place, and the ability to make the left/right buttons skip N seconds instead of to the prev/next track.

Have a good day!