All of a sudden I wanted to be able to slow down a tune. I remembered this famous 'amazing slowdowner', downloaded it for free and it works, but only for every 1st and 2nd track. So I went on searching fo free software and bumped into Audacity which should do the job. But it won't pick up cd files, only wav or mp3 files. And now I'm stuck (and a bit short of money, so it doesn't help to suggest to buy).
So: how do I convert cd tracks to wav or mp3? I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to computers...
Any other suggestions that make it simple in this case are also welcome of course!
Try downloading CDex - it's free and is a very good little bit of software for ripping CDs to MP3. Alternatively use Mediaplayer 10 or greater to do this.
It goes to 11 ~ even higher I think.
I keep Windows Media Player v. 1o
I was doing the updates & I cannot remember why but I did not like something about the 'upgrades'. 10 works!
I always liked older versions of Real Player. But they are relentless about trying to get you to update.
Quicktime Player on Mac will do it as well. (Hit Apple-K for "kontrols", I guess), and you can choose the playback speed of any track, whether it be file or directly on CD (double click the cd in the Finder, and drag the track to your Quicktime Player, or right-click and choose Open With...)
Henk if you are still interested in using audacity
put the cd in, go to windows media player and open the rip cd tab or menu - check that the format is mp3. Now press start rip.
The files should appear in your 'my music' folder (if not have a quick look in the rip options menu and it will give you a location they have been saved to).
If you are really lucky as well your options in your music playter will be set up for the tracks to be named when they are played / ripped.
Now open audacity and open the folder containing the mp3s and then just drag the mp3 you want over into the audacity window and there you are - good to go.
you can slow down / speed up far more in audacity than windows media player will allow.
Sorry, i didn't read the original post carefully enough.-
There are plenty of packages out there that will "rip" a cd into MP3 files (or the more free "ogg" or "vorbis" formats), including the aforementioned winamp
I thought winamp was useful enough that I bought a license, but I think it still provides plenty of usefullness without the purchased license...
Wow Reverend - thanks! This is gonna make a big difference for me. There've been some tunes, like Josephine Marsh's The New Day, and John Brennan's (I've been listening to the Border Collies recording of this on Unleashed) that I can't find a notation reference for, and some bits of them have continued to elude me.
Pat, thanks for the Audiograbber tip. Tobes, I'll try that. I realize that the Windows Media Player is a bit limited in this respect (though it already has done the job for me in this particular case - if anyone is interested, the tune was The Fiddler's Key: a lovely Liz Carroll tune from the Trian II album. You know Liz regularly makes these small variations that are hard to follow at normal speed).
BestPractice has worked mostly OK, especially if you take the track from a cd. It is sometimes picky about whether it will open certain mp3 files, but I have made a lot of use of it. Recently I used it to slow down Fintan McManus by Altan and play it over and over - that tune drives me mad!
slowing down: for free??
slowing down: for free??
Hi all,
All of a sudden I wanted to be able to slow down a tune. I remembered this famous 'amazing slowdowner', downloaded it for free and it works, but only for every 1st and 2nd track. So I went on searching fo free software and bumped into Audacity which should do the job. But it won't pick up cd files, only wav or mp3 files. And now I'm stuck (and a bit short of money, so it doesn't help to suggest to buy).
So: how do I convert cd tracks to wav or mp3? I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to computers...
Any other suggestions that make it simple in this case are also welcome of course!
Thanks in advance.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Henk Bos
Re: slowing down: for free??
Import as raw data?
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by piobagusfidil
Re: slowing down: for free??
If you use windows...Import the files to your windows media library, click play at the top, then enhancements, then play speed settings.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by anastasiadesroches
Re: slowing down: for free??
It's easy on Mac.Add the CD to iTunes library.Then drag selected track out of iTunes to desktop.Then open it with Audacity.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by wolfbird
Re: slowing down: for free??
Anastasia, I can't find enhancements (I have Windows media player 9). Is this an old version or ....?
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Henk Bos
Re: slowing down: for free??
Anastasia: I just have found it, it was the toolbar at the top I had to use!
As the famous detective Hercule Poirot would say now:
'Hastings, ze case it is closed'.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Henk Bos
Re: slowing down: for free??
Hi Henk,
In case you could still use this info, I use Audiograbber to get audio files from CDs.. it's easy to use, and free
Pat
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by fiftymission
Re: slowing down: for free??
If I remember correctly (an increasingly rare phenomenon), the Slowdowner will work on a standalone file on your hard drive, if you catch my drift.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Bob himself
Re: slowing down: for free??
Best Practice does the job also although I have experienced it refusing to open files recorded on my MP3 for no understandable reason
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by concertinaplayer
Re: slowing down: for free??
Try downloading CDex - it's free and is a very good little bit of software for ripping CDs to MP3. Alternatively use Mediaplayer 10 or greater to do this.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Brown Creeper
Re: slowing down: Windows Media
It goes to 11 ~ even higher I think.
I keep Windows Media Player v. 1o
I was doing the updates & I cannot remember why but I did not like something about the 'upgrades'. 10 works!
I always liked older versions of Real Player. But they are relentless about trying to get you to update.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Ben Steen
Re: slowing down: for free??
but isn't 11 just that much better? ; )
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Wyogal
Re: slowing down: for free??
If you think 10 is old you should see my truck.
Not that it's a SlowDowner.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Ben Steen
Re: slowing down: for free??
Quicktime Player on Mac will do it as well. (Hit Apple-K for "kontrols", I guess), and you can choose the playback speed of any track, whether it be file or directly on CD (double click the cd in the Finder, and drag the track to your Quicktime Player, or right-click and choose Open With...)
Pete
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Reverend
Re: slowing down: for free??
Is this reference to 10 and 11 a tribute to the immortal "Spinal Tap?".
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by bodhran bliss
Free & easy & slow
I never saw it but heard the bodhran player was less than immortal. I love it. The show I mean ~ not the unfortunate explosions.
# Posted on November 19th 2007 by Ben Steen
Re: slowing down: for free??
Henk if you are still interested in using audacity
put the cd in, go to windows media player and open the rip cd tab or menu - check that the format is mp3. Now press start rip.
The files should appear in your 'my music' folder (if not have a quick look in the rip options menu and it will give you a location they have been saved to).
If you are really lucky as well your options in your music playter will be set up for the tracks to be named when they are played / ripped.
Now open audacity and open the folder containing the mp3s and then just drag the mp3 you want over into the audacity window and there you are - good to go.
you can slow down / speed up far more in audacity than windows media player will allow.
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by tobes
Re: slowing down: for free??
but of course! I want to paint an "11" on my zeta volume dial...
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Wyogal
Re: slowing down: for free??
winamp + pacemaker plugin
works great on any MP3 file.
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Georgi
Re: slowing down: for free??
Sorry, i didn't read the original post carefully enough.-
There are plenty of packages out there that will "rip" a cd into MP3 files (or the more free "ogg" or "vorbis" formats), including the aforementioned winamp
I thought winamp was useful enough that I bought a license, but I think it still provides plenty of usefullness without the purchased license...
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Georgi
Re: slowing down: for free??
Wow Reverend - thanks! This is gonna make a big difference for me. There've been some tunes, like Josephine Marsh's The New Day, and John Brennan's (I've been listening to the Border Collies recording of this on Unleashed) that I can't find a notation reference for, and some bits of them have continued to elude me.
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Keith Dubinsky
Re: slowing down: for free??
Pat, thanks for the Audiograbber tip. Tobes, I'll try that. I realize that the Windows Media Player is a bit limited in this respect (though it already has done the job for me in this particular case - if anyone is interested, the tune was The Fiddler's Key: a lovely Liz Carroll tune from the Trian II album. You know Liz regularly makes these small variations that are hard to follow at normal speed).
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Henk Bos
Re: slowing down: for free??
BestPractice has worked mostly OK, especially if you take the track from a cd. It is sometimes picky about whether it will open certain mp3 files, but I have made a lot of use of it. Recently I used it to slow down Fintan McManus by Altan and play it over and over - that tune drives me mad!
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by RichardB
Re: slowing down: Liz??
Why didn't you say Liz Carroll?
Those 2 just blew through our town.
Check out this thread about here interview on
NPR ~ All Things Considered.
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/9301/
# Posted on November 20th 2007 by Ben Steen