Tuesday 22nd September 2026 new

SlowBird V1.8.1

Since launching my music transcription app SlowBird, I've had a lot of incredibly helpful feedback (including a friend making a full walkthrough video unprompted!). I was taken aback by how generous, helpful and kind people were - taking time out to reply to my emails and rapidly make SlowBird a better tool. For me, this affirmed the idea that you should launch software ASAP and then gather as much feedback as possible, since real users often have solutions to problems that you hadn't yet noticed and will likely try to use your software in unpredictable ways.` Since then, I've added the 'Notes Viewer' (view all saved phrases across all saved tracks in one panel), video playback support, copy-pasting of video and audio links so you can transcribe directly from a streaming link. Thanks to the continued feedback from actual users, I now firmly believe that SlowBird is already the best modern tool for transcribing music and it will only get better. In my opinion, transcribing recorded music by ear is the single most transforative practice you can adopt as a musician and there is no shortcut to doing this wonderful often difficult work but SlowBird is now an ideal environment to develop this skill and your musical language by curating a library of transcriptions and ideas from the greats.

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