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Freeware mp3 player that slows down, transposes and transcribes music

Wow.. this is a great tool!!! Works great for me..

Thanks for sharing!!

Awesome app!
I'm running a newer MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and so far this works great.

The Good:
- The slow downer is pretty much perfect. If I really need to slow something down I usually just use quicktime 7 but this slows things down more nicely.
-The transposer is great too, very clean

The Bad:
-It couldn't read some mp3s
-The transcriber looks like it works but it's really jumpy and doesn't seem to capture rhythm well at all.
-Can't click the transposer, volume and slowndowner into place. You have to drag
-Karaoke mode seems pretty much useless

The Ugly:
-Doesn't remember folders. This is probably the most frustrating thing because all my music is in my iTunes folder and every time I want to open a new song I have to navigate to it from the root. Super annoying and imo, the thing that needs to be fixed most urgently.

Suggestions:
-add a zoom in an out so one can more precisely set loops and start points.
-allows clicking volume, slow downer, and transposer into place
-add a pan (left-right) option instead of the karaoke mode.
-add an EQ
-repackage in such a way that it is recognized as a program so we can click mp3 or wav files and tell them to "open with SlowMP3" (if possible).
Despite my criticisms I dig it a lot and it's FREE!! I'm going to use this as my primary track slower and pitch shifter for personal practice.
Great job dude!

Spot on........ but still a great app.. and I do 90% of my practicing with my PC. Even my metronome is on my PC from StudyBass.com.
 
Nice job, and thanks! I finally got it to work last night with my OS X 10.6.4. Did a Bing search to find a free online audio converter (Switch) so my files are in a readable format.

The transcriber keyboard is a bit hard to follow for me. Too many shades of blue going on at the same time. I assume the darkest shade is the primary note; that's how I'm using it. Also doesn't help that my keyboard note reading skills are rusty, but given enough time and replays, I'm getting some songs sorted out. :cool:
 
I use "Transcribe!" a lot, but your app is much easier to use. I like how you placed the speed and pitch slider on the main window. It would be nice if the pitch slider could go up one octave like in "Transcribe!". When you are transcribing, it's sometimes easier to pick out the bass line when it's up an octave.

Nice work!