rbpitch For Linux

rbpitch is a plugin for Rhythmbox which allows the user to change the pitch, tempo, and speed of the music playback.

rbpitch is a plugin for Rhythmbox that lets you change the pitch, tempo, and speed in real-time while playing a song. The main features of rbpitch include:

*Change the pitch and tempo of your music independently of each other. *Change the "speed", which is pitch+tempo scaled together without aliasing. *Remember pitch and tempo settings between launches. *Easy to use GUI, integrated into the Rhythmbox shell.

There are other programs similar to rbpitch. rbpitch closely resembles: *PaceMaker: http://surina.net/pacemaker/ (closed source, Windows only) *J. River Media Jukebox 12 contains similar functionality (closed source, Windows only) *foo_dsp_soundtouch for Foobar2000 (closed source, Windows only) *scaletempo for Rhythmbox: http://willem.engen.nl/projects/musictools/ (open source, cross platform)

Here are some possible uses of rbpitch, borrowed from http://surina.net/pacemaker by Olli Parviainen (with permission): *Slower music tempo eases practicing music *Change the music key to match the singer's voice (karaoke, singing practice) *Dancers can change the music tempo suitable for dancing *Adjust music key instead of retuning instrument for each song *Listen 78 RPM vinyl singles with a usual 33/45 RPM disc player *Transcribe tunes *Write down dictations