"Enable time stretching audio" seems to have no effect, audio detunes anyway

For what it's worth this isn't new this has been the case for years (decades?) but I never got around to file it. But I constantly have issues with VLC as an audio player due to one single issue, which is the audible detuning.

Now there is the setting "Enable time stretching audio" which seems to be made to compensate for this problem, but it's just that I can't tell a difference - the audio still audibly detunes sometimes.

Would it be possible to revisit this setting? Or maybe would it be possible to just let audio-only files play back without syncing to system time (which I think I've once been told is the underlying issue for this whole compensation to kick in that detunes)? It seems to be a bit of a shame that one single such issue can impact the use as an audio player somewhat, so it would be cool to see some sort of solution to this.

(My apologies if there is already an obvious additional setting to address this, but I haven't found one.)

My apologies, this could be a duplicate of #14287 I'm not sure:

What I am seeing is basically sometimes in audio songs VLC will slightly (maybe around 1 semi tone) detune the song up or down like it's trying to catch up with something, it isn't super audible with casual/quieter listening but pretty noticeable at a louder volume with full focus on the song. It seems to happen more with some songs than others but otherwise seems like it can be at basically any random spot, usually goes on for like 2-3 seconds, then everything is fine again. I have never seen anything like it in any other media player, it is almost like an intentional resample rate change on behalf of VLC. If there was a way to do it such that it doesn't detune and/or just not do it, that might really help!

--no-audio-time-stretch works fine here.

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Should I make a new ticket for the detuning problem then? Does this sound like the same problem as #14287 to you or a different one?

The option I just thought was related, but I think it's just meant for the intentional playback speed changes now. In any case, the problem is the detuning, not the option, so my misunderstanding of the option sadly I think doesn't really solve the audio glitches.

I also experience the bug that ell1e is having.

1. Playing an MP3, trigger it by holding down REWIND for about 2 seconds.
2. When you let go, playback resumes, but slightly slowed from proper speed. About a semi-tone down.
3. In about 5 to 6 seconds, the audio speeds up to proper speed.

EDIT: Tested and fast forward also works. I cannot seem to make this happen with FLAC or WAV files. Or M4A.