i've switched from playing mp3's on my laptop in windows media player to itunes because it rips mp3's from cd's and not wma files. no need to reply to this decision.

i used a free download called chronotron for windows media player to vary the tempo of songs played on wmp so i could learn them more easily. no looping, but that didn't matter very much.

does anyone know about a (hopefully) free program to download for itunes that will allow me to vary the tempo of playback without altering pitch (and vice versa, for those tuning dilemmas? ) Joe