diff --git a/libs/ardour/audio_diskstream.cc b/libs/ardour/audio_diskstream.cc
index 1e0e13a276..d67e48fed4 100644
--- a/libs/ardour/audio_diskstream.cc
+++ b/libs/ardour/audio_diskstream.cc
@@ -818,7 +818,6 @@ AudioDiskstream::process_varispeed_playback(nframes_t nframes, boost::shared_ptr
 {
          ChannelList::iterator chan;
 	
- 		/*
 		interpolation.set_speed (_target_speed);
 		
 		int channel = 0;
@@ -826,70 +825,10 @@ AudioDiskstream::process_varispeed_playback(nframes_t nframes, boost::shared_ptr
 			ChannelInfo* chaninfo (*chan);
 	
 			playback_distance = interpolation.interpolate (
-					channel, nframes, chaninfo->current_playback_buffer, chaninfo->speed_buffer); 
+					channel, nframes, chaninfo->current_playback_buffer, chaninfo->speed_buffer);
+					
+			chaninfo->current_playback_buffer = chaninfo->speed_buffer;
 		}
-		*/
-         
-         // the idea behind phase is that when the speed is not 1.0, we have to 
-         // interpolate between samples and then we have to store where we thought we were. 
-         // rather than being at sample N or N+1, we were at N+0.8792922
-         // so the "phase" element, if you want to think about this way, 
-         // varies from 0 to 1, representing the "offset" between samples
-         uint64_t    phase = interpolation.get_last_phase();
-         
-         interpolation.set_speed (_target_speed);
-         
-         // acceleration
-         uint64_t    phi = interpolation.get_phi();
-         uint64_t    target_phi = interpolation.get_target_phi();
-         int64_t     phi_delta;
-         
-         // index in the input buffers
-         nframes_t   i = 0;
-
-         // Linearly interpolate into the speed buffer
-         // using 40.24 fixed point math
-         //
-         // Fixed point is just an integer with an implied scaling factor. 
-         // In 40.24 the scaling factor is 2^24 = 16777216,  
-         // so a value of 10*2^24 (in integer space) is equivalent to 10.0. 
-         //
-         // The advantage is that addition and modulus [like x = (x + y) % 2^40]  
-         // have no rounding errors and no drift, and just require a single integer add.
-         // (swh)
-         
-         const int64_t fractional_part_mask  = 0xFFFFFF;
-         const Sample  binary_scaling_factor = 16777216.0f;
-
-         // phi = fixed point speed
-         if (phi != target_phi) {
-                 phi_delta = ((int64_t)(target_phi - phi)) / nframes;
-         } else {
-                 phi_delta = 0;
-         }
-
-         for (chan = c->begin(); chan != c->end(); ++chan) {
-
-                 Sample fractional_phase_part;
-                 ChannelInfo* chaninfo (*chan);
-
-                 i = 0;
-                 phase = interpolation.get_last_phase();
-
-                 for (nframes_t outsample = 0; outsample < nframes; ++outsample) {
-                         i = phase >> 24;
-                         fractional_phase_part = (phase & fractional_part_mask) / binary_scaling_factor;
-                         chaninfo->speed_buffer[outsample] = 
-                                 chaninfo->current_playback_buffer[i] * (1.0f - fractional_phase_part) +
-                                 chaninfo->current_playback_buffer[i+1] * fractional_phase_part;
-                         phase += phi + phi_delta;
-                 }
-                 
-                 chaninfo->current_playback_buffer = chaninfo->speed_buffer;
-         }
-
-         playback_distance = i; // + 1;
-         interpolation.set_last_phase (phase & fractional_part_mask);
 }
 
 bool