BPMinus

Journalism greatly evolved nowadays, and an interview can be recorded so that journalists can later on build articles without having to focus or miss important details on the spot. You might, however, need to closely listen to the audio file in question at a slower pace, and this can be done with BPMinus.

The application isn’t really your average audio player, even though, at a first glance, it can surely seem like it. You find the possibility to create playlists, playback controls are quite comfortable, and a variety of file details are shown during playback, including the album cover. You also find the waveform built as soon as the track starts to play.

There’s quite an impressive support for audio file formats. You can play nearly anything from WAV, AIFF, MP1, MP2, MP3, OGG, WMA, AAC, and MP4, to MOD, MO3, XM, IT, MTM, UMX, MDZ, as well as FLAC files. You can also change modified files, but this is only possible as WAV, MP3, or AAC.

As the name can suggest, one of the application’s core functions is to help you reduce the BMP value of songs, just to make it easier to transcribe parts. On the bright side of things, pitch is little to none affected, but there’s also a pitch slider to use. You also benefit from a built-in equalizer to fine-tune sound for better understanding.

A particular bit of track can be looped by simply selecting it from the waveform. The preferences menu lets you select the output format, in case you want to save changes to file. Moreover, you can access the advanced configuration panel in order to select transients, detector, phase, smoothing, pitch, and more.

In conclusion, BPMinus comes as a reliable, helpful tool especially for transcribing fast, or somewhat difficult to understand audio files. Values are easy to change, with the possibility to save your files, while the support of formats makes sure you rarely have problems with source files you use in your work.