I also have an Amplitube Stealth plug which come with a light version of Amplitube ...Amplitube Live 2. This has an mp3 slowdowner built in to the interface. I do not use the Stealthplug much...latency.
i like transcribe too it'll even work on MP3s ...I only just recently found that good ol MS media player will give you half speed...just right click with your cursor on the play button. Its also adjustable through the "enhancement" settings.
Also programs like Transcribe or an audio editor like CuBase allow you to highlight and repeat a passage which is usefule when you are learning something for the first time. Windows Media Payer can slow it down, but I dont think it will auto repeat nor play a specific time range in the file. You also have to be careful as to what you load up, for example Ive heard that if you load up Andreas Oberg, your computer can catch on fire...too much information or something.
You must check out the most user-friendly music slow down software that I have ever found, called mTrax by www.TerraSofta.com It is "The Music Player for Musicians". It automatically loads all of your music and lets you make "sections" wherever you want, and as many as you want per song. You can slow these sections down without a pitch change and loop through them. There is no need to mess with saving these sections, the next time you open mTrax, it is just as you left it, all of your sections in place. It has a bunch of other bells and whistles and costs $50 like the rest of them, but really offers so much more.
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I also have an Amplitube Stealth plug which come with a light version of Amplitube ...Amplitube Live 2. This has an mp3 slowdowner built in to the interface. I do not use the Stealthplug much...latency.
Take a look and see if Amplitube Live 2 is a free download at..... http://www.ikmultimedia.com/Main.html?MainPage.php
Anyway it slows it down without changing the pitch.
slowing down in windows media player does not alter the pitch
also, most "light editions" of audio production hosts already have a "time stretch" function, for example Cubase LE. And they´re mostly quite cheap.
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