Playback or Play Back may refer to:

Film

  • Playback (1962 film), a British film in the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series
  • Playback, a 1996 film starring Shannon Whirry
  • Playback (2012 film), an American horror film by Michael A. Nickles
  • Play Back, a 2021 Indian Telugu-language film
  • Playback (2019 film), an Argentine documentary

Literature

  • Playback (magazine), a Canadian film, TV, and new media trade publication
  • Playback (novel), by Raymond Chandler, also a screenplay

Music

  • Gapless playback, uninterrupted play of audio tracks
  • Playback singer, a singer in films whose singing is prerecorded, who lip syncs (see also lip-synching in music)

Performers

  • Playback (South Korean group), a girl group
  • Playback, an American boyband that competed in season 2 of the U.S. X Factor
  • Playback, credited performers in the U.S. of the 1979 Player One song "Space Invaders"

Albums

  • Playback (The Appletree Theatre album), 1968
  • Playback (Phi Life Cypher album), 2006
  • Playback (Sam Lazar album), 1962
  • Playback (SSQ album), 1983
  • Playback (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album), 1995
  • Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology, 2017

Songs

  • "Playback", by Carlos Paião, representing Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1981
  • "Playback", by NCT 127 from 2 Baddies, 2022

Other uses

  • Playback (technique), a chaos magic technique
  • Playback attack, or replay attack, a type of network attack
  • Playback FM, a fictional radio station in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  • Playback Theatre, a form of improvisational theatre

See also

  • Record (disambiguation)
  • Replay (disambiguation)