Playback could mean:

• Playback singing, a practice in Bollywood musicals.
• Playback, a novel by Raymond Chandler.
• Playback, an album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
• The re-playing of recorded media.
• Playback Theatre, an improvisational form of community theatre.
• Gapless playback, the seamless playback of digital audio formats.