New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
Hope this is an appropriate place to post this - I figure most people here would be interested.
I've just had an app approved for sale on iTunes. It's called iLift, and it's designed to help learning tunes. You can slow down tunes without changing the pitch, or loop sections of tunes that you want to learn. You can also change the key or fine tune.
Supports MP3, AAC, AIFF and WAV files. You can load up to three tunes for free, or pay for the unlimited version.
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Will, this is fab. I have to learn some harp stuff for a concert and this means I can listen to the music + play anywhere, not just in the room where my pc is!
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
This is a clever bit of kit.
Question though - Do you have to upload songs especially from wherever or can you use stuff already in your (itunes) library?
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aha - just for the benefit of anyone else who is similarly puzzled, on my pc it doesn't work in firefox - you have to use m$ internet explorer (blow the dust of it first, in my case!)
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
GC, you have to
1) fire up the app in your ipod/iphone
2) click on the + to add a song
3) go to the indicated web address on your computer (has to be in the same wifi network) - I had to use Internet Explorer
4) Wait for the browse button to appear, then navigate to a file on your pc
5) hit submit. You have to wait for the web page to finish loading the music, and then it will have a link underneath to show the loaded items
6) ONLY once it's indicated the piece has loaded should you navigate away from the web page, and also, don't hit "done" on the ipod app page until your web page has finished.
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True - I also have Adobe Audition 3 and that can do this too, but the great thing about this app is its portability...so you can take something with you if you're staying away from home and can use the time to do a bit of learning.
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Glad you folks are liking it - seems like I need to do some research to find why it's causing problems on Firefox, though.
Chuck, I've got something working for abc on the iPhone, but I'm really waiting for the iPad to appear.
Barra, yes Audacity does this on PC or Mac, but not on iPhone. We wanted a portable learning tool.
Eiluned, unfortunately Apple in their wisdom doesn't let us poor app developers have access to the iTunes library on the device, so you'd have to download the tune from your computer. If only...
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Hi Will, I'm running 3.6, and in detail:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
...and just tried it again in FF and it works! So no idea why it didn't yesterday. Sorry about needlessly causing you alarm - I really did try several times yesterday even after it was working in IE.
Anyway still a great app - and that's right, it's the portability thing that's so important.
Update on iLift - learning tunes on your iPhone/iPod touch
Just wanted to report that we've got a new version of iLift available on the app store. You can now import tunes directly from your iPod library (assuming you're running the latest version of the iPhone software) as well as being able to either drag & drop while connected and as always use a web interface to add files.
You can also keep playing in the background while you do other stuff, like look at sheet music.
The not-so-good news: iLift no longer has a free version, it's $9.99 all the way. This is because there were things we wanted to add that were not possible to disable in a free version, and we wanted to keep it simple and reliable.
The good news - anybody who did download the free version gets the full version.
New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
Hope this is an appropriate place to post this - I figure most people here would be interested.
I've just had an app approved for sale on iTunes. It's called iLift, and it's designed to help learning tunes. You can slow down tunes without changing the pitch, or loop sections of tunes that you want to learn. You can also change the key or fine tune.
Supports MP3, AAC, AIFF and WAV files. You can load up to three tunes for free, or pay for the unlimited version.
Demo video at
http://iliftapp.com
Download at
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ilift/id356609405?mt=8
Thanks
wil
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by wil macaulay
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Cool Wil,
Now about Five Line Skink for iPhone/iPod Touch....
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by cboody
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Congratulations!
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Michael Eskin
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Will, this is fab. I have to learn some harp stuff for a concert and this means I can listen to the music + play anywhere, not just in the room where my pc is!
Couldn't have come at a better time - thank you!!
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Mark Harmer
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...but anyone got this thing to upload your music? I just get sent to a blank web page on my network! :(
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Mark Harmer
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
This is a clever bit of kit.
Question though - Do you have to upload songs especially from wherever or can you use stuff already in your (itunes) library?
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Gran Cassa
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
aha - just for the benefit of anyone else who is similarly puzzled, on my pc it doesn't work in firefox - you have to use m$ internet explorer (blow the dust of it first, in my case!)
Mark
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Mark Harmer
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
GC, you have to
1) fire up the app in your ipod/iphone
2) click on the + to add a song
3) go to the indicated web address on your computer (has to be in the same wifi network) - I had to use Internet Explorer
4) Wait for the browse button to appear, then navigate to a file on your pc
5) hit submit. You have to wait for the web page to finish loading the music, and then it will have a link underneath to show the loaded items
6) ONLY once it's indicated the piece has loaded should you navigate away from the web page, and also, don't hit "done" on the ipod app page until your web page has finished.
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Mark Harmer
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Thanks Mark.
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Gran Cassa
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Audacity also does this and is completely free!
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
True - I also have Adobe Audition 3 and that can do this too, but the great thing about this app is its portability...so you can take something with you if you're staying away from home and can use the time to do a bit of learning.
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by Mark Harmer
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I'm still not clear whether this will work if you are offline and using music already stored in your iPod
# Posted on March 3rd 2010 by eiluned
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Glad you folks are liking it - seems like I need to do some research to find why it's causing problems on Firefox, though.
Chuck, I've got something working for abc on the iPhone, but I'm really waiting for the iPad to appear.
Barra, yes Audacity does this on PC or Mac, but not on iPhone. We wanted a portable learning tool.
Eiluned, unfortunately Apple in their wisdom doesn't let us poor app developers have access to the iTunes library on the device, so you'd have to download the tune from your computer. If only...
wil
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by wil macaulay
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I just did a quick check with Firefox on both Windows XP and Mac OS - both seem to work for me. Mark, what version of Firefox are you running?
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by wil macaulay
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
Hi Will, I'm running 3.6, and in detail:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
...and just tried it again in FF and it works! So no idea why it didn't yesterday. Sorry about needlessly causing you alarm - I really did try several times yesterday even after it was working in IE.
Anyway still a great app - and that's right, it's the portability thing that's so important.
Cheers
Mark
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by Mark Harmer
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Great, Mark, glad it's working for you.
wil
# Posted on March 4th 2010 by wil macaulay
Re: New music learning application for iPhone and iPod Touch
We're getting some great comments and user feedback on iLift - if any of them are coming from you folks, my thanks!
wil
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by wil macaulay
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I wish I knew how to ask you non MAC users an intelligent question (i.e. one you understood)
# Posted on July 30th 2010 by wvwhistler
Update on iLift - learning tunes on your iPhone/iPod touch
Just wanted to report that we've got a new version of iLift available on the app store. You can now import tunes directly from your iPod library (assuming you're running the latest version of the iPhone software) as well as being able to either drag & drop while connected and as always use a web interface to add files.
You can also keep playing in the background while you do other stuff, like look at sheet music.
The not-so-good news: iLift no longer has a free version, it's $9.99 all the way. This is because there were things we wanted to add that were not possible to disable in a free version, and we wanted to keep it simple and reliable.
The good news - anybody who did download the free version gets the full version.
hope you enjoy it.
here's the link:
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/id356609405?mt=8
wil
# Posted on December 18th 2010 by wil macaulay