In general, most applications out there (desktop or mobile) will do everything you need with a great sound quality and ease-of-use, especially if your music collection is more traditional with your own non-DRM'd songs available digitally. If there's something more difficult I need to transcribe, I usually remove the DRM somehow and open it in a more advanced application. ( standard transcription techniques, but nothing advanced) and it can do it on DRM'd music since it's really just utilizing iTunes' advanced features.

There's a standalone app that does all the speed/pitch loop changes you normally see in transcription applications however it also has a version called iLift:Play that utilizes iOS's built-in music app to slow down up to 80%, loop, etc. It's called iLift and there's two versions of it. It worked well when I had DRM-free music on my phone or tablet, but since Apple Music came, and I drank the kool-aid I've found many apps don't want to play the DRM'd streamed music anymore.Įxcept one I've found. But in all honesty I only used the Lite version (free). Nice keyboard overlay for those tricky overtones or chords where you can't get it quite right.Īt first it was AudioStretch on iOS.

Plain and simple, took an audio file, and modified the playback. Great interface, probably the best 'sound' when slowing down and had great controls. Looking for dictation notepad, that includes editing capabilities Switch to Speechnotes - our designated dictation web app, which is free and offers better. It was powerful and only ran on the desktop, but was available on Windows, OS X and Linux. My situation may be unique, but valid - for those using iOS/OS X devices primarily and who usually listen to DRM'd/streamed music.

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