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I'm looking for an audio app for learning tunes by ear. Ideally would have:

1- slow playback, without adjusting pitch.
2- loop selection - to play a segment of the audio over and over
3- pitch adjustment (some old recordings are out of tune)

Anyone have one they like? For android the closest I've found is Fossify music player, which offers feature 1.

For PC, audacity has all these features, but its pretty clunky to use.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can use Play it slowly, which is rather bare-bones, or Sonic Visualizer, which is something of the opposite, but quite powerful.

My daily workhorse is Transcribe!, which I've been using for nearly 30 years, actually. Very powerful, and very intuitive, and with a lot of useful effects, such as filtering out the vocals (if possible), etc. I paid a one-time fee for a subscription back in the day. Money well spent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I use that timestretch web one already! But an actual app would be nice.

Sonic visualizer is pretty maximalist. Feels maybe not exactly designed for music practice but can do it and a lot else too.