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I'm a new user to Audacity. let me 1st say thx for the people that work behind the scenes on this product. It's a great resource. I took a quick look through frequently asked questions and didn't see the answer to the following quest, so here goes...I'm a drummer that wants to slow down the tempo of a Miles Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven so I can figure out what the heck Tony Williams is playing. I was able to bring the tune to Audacity via real-time recording at the line in on my computer + decrease the tempo, so I'm cool with that but for future reference it would seem that I should be able to go to my iTunes recording and just import the tune; tried it but got a very short (10 seconds?) of loud white noise. Plz advise. Thank you very much.

iTunes native music format isn't MP3. It's AAC and Audacity has no idea what to do with that. The desperation method is to burn a music CD and then rip that.

Koz

Or you can play the track in iTunes and record it into Audacity.

WC

As an aside, iTunes can easily be set to rip and encode only into MP3.

n0ctis wrote:As an aside, iTunes can easily be set to rip and encode only into MP3.

Excellent point n0ctis - and you can even set up iTunes to rip WAV files from a CD

WC