.. warning:: This project is currently unmaintained. It has been superceded by timestretch player <https://29a.ch/timestretch/>_. Play it slowly will likely not work on modern linux distributions anymore. If someone wants to continue working on play it slowly I'd be glad to hand over maintainership.

===================== Play it Slowly Manual

About

'Play it Slowly' is a tool to help you when practicing or transcribing music. It allows you to play a piece of music at a different speed or pitch.

Shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts exist:

• Alt + P or SPACE: Play/Pause
• Alt + e: Rewind
• CTRL + 1-9: Rewind (x seconds)

Selecting the audio output device

You can select which audiodevice playitslowly uses by passing a gstreamer sink with the --sink commandline parameter.

Example: playitslowly "--sink=alsasink device=plughw:GT10" or playitslowly "--sink=alsasink device=hw:1"

You can also use other sinks than alsa.

Generic Installation

To install use you need to have the following libraries installed:

• Python 3.4 or newer
• PyGI (Python GObject Introspection)
• GTK3
• gstreamer 1.0 including the soundtouch/pitch element (included in gstreamer-plugins-bad)

Normally these libraries are already installed on your system.

To install play it slowly execute: python setup.py install as superuser (root). If you are using a gnome based system like Ubuntu you can just doubleclick install.sh and select run.

Hacking

The source code of play it slowly is hosted on github:

http://github.com/jwagner/playitslowly

If you have any questions or a patch just drop me a mail or fill a pull request on github.

License

Copyright (C) 2009 - 2016 Jonas Wagner

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Bugreports / Questions

If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions or just want to thank me - I would like to hear about it!

Known Issues

• None

Contact

http://29a.ch/about