Observed arrival · 2026-10-19
EarBee: learn songs by ear
A free, open-source desktop player for slowing down music, finding beats and bars, and looping tricky passages while you transcribe.
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- Musicians transcribing songs by ear
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- Bar-aware loops can be doubled, halved, or shifted phrase by phrase; Intel Macs currently get beat detection without bar detection.
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Users can save marks, loop, speed, and EQ in an .ebee project, with or without embedding the song. The page also describes synchronized video playback, YouTube links or search, and chapter conversion into marked sections. The download page provides separate Windows, macOS, and Linux instructions; it explicitly says the Mac build has not yet been tested on a real Mac, and Intel Macs receive beat detection without bar detection.
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