View Full Version : Speed adjust on a mac!!!
cantskiforlife
08-04-2007, 03:07 PM
I just found this program for $45 that allows you to adjust the speed of a song without changing the pitch. ON A MAC!!! :) :) :)
It looks like someone finally made one! I downloaded the trial version and it works wonders. Unfortunately, its not a plug-in for iTunes, but you can access all your itunes playlists still :)
The site is ronimusic.com and its called the amazing slow donwer.
I know.. Isn't the name great.
FWIW, if anyone is wondering how to do this in windows, audacity does it as well.
White Chacha
08-04-2007, 10:22 PM
The site is ronimusic.com and its called the amazing slow donwer.
Great stuff. It's been around for a number of years. You've danced to some music processed through it at MIT ;-) Think smooth vwaltz... Well, really lots of stuff.
Audacity is available for almost any OS and is a great free choice. But it doesn't do realtime processing. You have to process a file and then you can play it.
Under windows, I've used plugins for winamp. Chronotron and Pacemaker come to mind.
Awesome WCC, I will have to give these a try since I use winamp... any software for my iPhone that will do it on the fly? :-)
White Chacha
08-05-2007, 06:56 PM
... any software for my iPhone that will do it on the fly? :-)
Well, talk to Steve Jobs. Maybe he'll open up the iPhone
to 3rd party apps, AND break the lock to *that* provider...
Well, talk to Steve Jobs. Maybe he'll open up the iPhone
to 3rd party apps, AND break the lock to *that* provider...
Haha, yeah, not if contracts mean anything--must wait another few years before you can get this dandy device on anything else. I love mine, and would rather use a regular ol' candy bar phone than go back to a windows mobile device... ever. There's NO comparison. What windows mobile gives in more options it takes away in the form of a complete lack of usability, at least when compared with the iPhone. When I hold my windows mobile device (a "state of the art" by most standards, at&t htc 8525), it feels like I'm holding an old 1993 cordless phone... :-) And it helps that things actually work out of the box on the iphone... things that windows mobile just couldn't do right, like wifi, bluetooth headset intelligent operation, and a ton of others... and I'm not a mac fan either. Imagine how zealous mac people with iphones are :wink:
White Chacha
08-06-2007, 07:21 AM
The good tempo/pitch altering algorithms are pretty processor hungry. Realistically I'm not sure how well ASD would run on a handheld device under battery power.
I know there's a kludge (read workaround) on the later video iPods. It lets you alter the "tempo" of ebooks. If you save your song in that format you can get tempo control on it. It's been discussed in another thread here.
Eek, sounds like a very kludgy way to do it :-) I'll just have to up or down my internal tempo preference control ;-)
Chris Stratton
08-06-2007, 11:21 AM
any software for my iPhone that will do it on the fly? :-)
I've been eyeing the open moko iphone-alternative developer's kit... But I wish it had a camera. And I'm still afraid of carrying around something with a large display in a phone form factor.
Interesting Chris, I was not aware of this device. I just googled for it, and it doesn't even have EDGE.. :-\ To me, my HTC 8525 was a fantastic WM phone, but the problem was that it still ran WM :-)
Seriously, if you haven't used an iphone in person, just give it a try for a good 10 minutes. The lack of tactile keyboard feedback feels odd at first, but let me assure you that I'm typing just as fast as I was on the physical keyboard on my 8525. The iphone screen is bigger, brighter (meaning, I can actually see the screen in my car on a bright day, unlike the 8525 and most screens out there), and extremely scratch resistant. The response time of the iphone is amazing, and things work so well without constant tweaking--which I don't mind doing a little bit, but I don't like to spend an hour or more every day having to figure out what's crashing my phone. There are no doubt things that do not work as well on the iphone as they could. But I'm not exaggerating when I say that it beats HANDS DOWN in usability and overall performance (phone works every time, don't have to reset it once a day, battery life is great, UI is logical and not much of a learning curve) any other phone I've ever used, and I've used more than I care to say :-\
In short, give it a shot!
[end iphone commercial] ;-)
Egoist
08-06-2007, 11:57 AM
FWIW, if anyone is wondering how to do this in windows, audacity does it as well.
Does it work with iTunes files?
Does it work with iTunes files?
Mmmmm, I believe it will import AAC files. Be aware though that if you purchase songs from iTunes, they are protected and can't be played anywhere else except iTunes and iPod, etc. There is a program I use to remove the protection and convert the .m4p files to .aac files, but it's not legal to do so.
Another alternative is to burn your songs to a CD, rip them to WAV format, and then import it that way into audacity.
pruthe
08-06-2007, 03:41 PM
Well, talk to Steve Jobs. Maybe he'll open up the iPhone
to 3rd party apps, AND break the lock to *that* provider...
iPhone is open somewhat to 3rd party apps.
developer.apple.com/iphone/
White Chacha
08-06-2007, 10:11 PM
Does it work with iTunes files?
It *might* work with the newer, 256 Kb/s non-DRM'd iTunes files. It's unlikely to work with the DRM'd ones. I haven't gotten around to trying that.
cantskiforlife
08-07-2007, 01:11 AM
Wow, Josh sounds kinda like me here...
1) 3rd party apps have been out since the beginning - it just depends on how much of a risk you take with your phone.... :)
2) Audacity will work with the files.... It just depends on how you export them from iTunes...
3) Speed control on the i-Devices is controlled by turning them into audiobook files (*.m4a --> i believe). This allows you to adjust the tempo +-25%. However that's it.
4) ASB can render the files in realtime. I have been using it this way since I downloaded it. It just depends on the computer you have. :)
5) Unfortunately I still have not found a plug-in for itunes that will allow you to adjust the speed/pitch.
White Chacha
08-07-2007, 07:12 AM
2) Audacity will work with the files.... It just depends on how you export them from iTunes...
...
5) Unfortunately I still have not found a plug-in for itunes that will allow you to adjust the speed/pitch.
Ahem on 2 ;-) and I think the latter is due to a lack of API with iTunes. I've always wished you could buy plugins.
With the plugins, as with the 3rd party apps for the iPhone, I can see Apple's side. They want to be able to guarantee the user experience. If the user gets a hold of some bad iPlugin and it does something bad (like trash their unbackedup iTunes library or bricks their phone) it's a bad user experience.
But you also want the device/program to be open to expansion in ways Apple doesn't find a current priority.
OK, I've diverged from the meat of this thread ;-) Off to take my vitamins.
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