Amazing Slow Downer and Apple Music
Hello all,
I have a question about the Amazing Slow Downer. I have not purchased the program yet, but I want to try to manage my expectations. I use a Macbook Pro with no CD drive. I can import the BH study songs into iTunes, so I don't think I would have any issues dragging the study songs into ASD and having it work.
I am also a subscriber to Apple Music, so I have access to a lot of music, but I can't burn anything to a CD that I did not import from a CD. I am assuming that I would not be able to drag a song I have rights to through Apple Music into ASD. Has anyone here with an Apple Music subscription tried dragging a track into ASD?
Before I purchase the program, I want to know if I am only going to be able to use it for BH Study songs. Thanks.
John
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the reply. I think where I am going to have issues is with the DRM piece of Apple Music.
The tricky part is that Apple Music is the name of the subscription service, which is where I get all my music now. iTunes and the iTunes library aren't the same thing as Apple Music, but Apple Music lets me create playlists with appear in my iTunes library. I just can't burn those playlists to a CD, and I suspect I can't export them either.
Fortunately, after my first month of practice here I am not finding a lack of ASD is slowing me down at all. I am about half way through the first study song, and David provides the 15% and 30% slow versions anyway, so I haven't needed it.
John
Audacity. http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac/ Import your file from the File Menu. select it. go to the Effect Menu, choose Change Tempo. Choose change tempo without affecting pitch. Slow it down by any % you choose. Hope this helps.
I have Amazon Prime/Unlimited, another subscription service. I can't import those into ASD. I'd need to buy them.
Any of David's tracks should import smoothly into ASD. I put them on my google drive and then import into ASD. I just started here, but I use ASD on his full speed rather than his 15%/30% slow tracks.
Most of my musical experience is saxophone (big band, occasionally rock), and I use ASD all the time (especially if I can find a recorded version of my big-band charts). It has a lot of great features other than just slowing down (changing the key, looping). The key changing seems particularly useful for harmonica (e.g., you want to play something for Bb harp but you don't have one you can just alter the key to make it work with C or A harp).
This is a really helpful tip. I much prefer using Audacity and knowing it has the ability to slow down tempo without affecting pitch is awesome. Going to have to give it a try.
I echo Brett's comment. I have used Audacity for other audio projects, and I was planning to use it to "chop up" the study song into sections to practice, but I had no idea that it had a "Change Tempo without affecting pitch" option. I am going to have the same DRM issue with Apple Music, but I will be having that issue for free rather than with a paid piece of software.
Thanks rpb54.
John
Hi John,
I'm new here but have used ASD on iPad for several years. The iPad app has an an "import song" function that gives you direct access to your Apple music library. I've not used the OSX version but I expect it had at least as much functionality as the IOS app.
Eric