Help with iTunes.

knightstyle

OK so we have bought some music to take to old peoples homes to sing Carols this Christmas. But some are too fast!
So is there a way of slowing them down a bit without changing the notes?
They are on iPlayer on our old Macbook and iPad.

poppy10_2

There are apps for the iPad that can do this - e.g.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/highnote-music-player-independent/id592398757?mt=8

Or Garageband on your Mac

knightstyle

Thanks, I have Garageband08 but I cannot see how to open a tune from iTunes on it! When I go to the help or tutorials it just takes me to Apple sales and tries to sell me a later version!
If I click on new music project it comes up with a keyboard and existing project shows iTunes but all the tunes are in light grew and cannot be opened!
Any experts tell me what I am doing wrong?

almillar

Audacity, which you can install free on your Macbook, can slow playback down. You can change the pitch, which would be like slowing a record down (voices will go LOW) but there's a different setting where this won't be affected - I don't know off the top of my head what this is called. You can then save the 'slower' MP3s for use...

knightstyle

Thanks but as usual I am feeling very thick. I have downloaded audacity and put the tune in it, I can play it slowly in audacity but this changes the pitch and I cannot export the tune in the slow mode!
Just seem to go round and round in circles, these things should be simple, garage band, I can now import the tune but cannot see where the control is to slow it down!

Moneymaker

I found this but I can't vouch for it:
http://www.ronimusic.com/amsldox.htm

I use QuickTime Pro to slow audio without changing the pitch. But I'm not sure whether it can be saved in the slowed format.

Audacity instructions on this page:
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-there-a-free-player-that-will-slow-down-music.243220/

knightstyle

Thanks, will persevere.

googler

Speedshifter

http://gb.abrsm.org/en/exam-support/practice-tools-and-applications/speedshifter/