Slowing down a section of a song

How do I take a piece, say, 8-12 measures of a song and slow it down to zero, like the power being cut on a record player?

You can use Speed Fades. Just create regular fades, then you go to the inspector box. Fade Out itself is a pop-up menu. Click on it and select slow down.
Same applies to fade Ins. You can turn them into Speed ups.
Best,
DaCaptain.

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hi,
i searched through the forums and i didn't see that exact issue so i decided to post it.
as soon as i share my library itunes completely slows down.
- starting to play songs takes 5 seconds and displays the rotating rainbow circle
- rating songs takes 5 seconds also and displays the rotating rainbow circle
- resuming play after pausing also
there are two more interesting issues:
- i have a few albums where it doesn't happen! the albums aren't encoded different, have the same version of tags, are on the same drive in an adjacent folder. i tried reimporting songs, placing it into different folders or harddrives. no changes.
- only 2% of my library is shared and it seems like most of it is recently added music. but: no differences in encoding, tags, place on the harddrive. renaming, readding, moving the files didn't change the situation.
i also disabled automatic updating of playlists, deleted all my playlist folders, reinstalled itunes, tried basically everything.
what does itunes do in the network when playing, rating songs, ...? i'm using a fast wlan, but i don't think that's the issue or does itunes reexport the xml-file after every play? has it something to do with auto-update-play-counts after every song (which i couldn' find in the preferences)?
any help would be greatly appreciated!
regards,
eric.
by the way: i'd loooooove to see pandora-like functionality in the next major versin of itunes!!! :)))

When you are sharing your iTunes, any other users you share with are accessing your hard drive and music foilder simultaneously with you. Since shared users are not playing exactly the same song at the same time as you, your hard drive's heads are scanning and reading from more points than they would be with you alone listening. There is a need to cache some part of the files for sharing, and that uses a bit of your RAM too. I guess it would be similar to saying that your car drives fine as long as you are driving it alone. Pile a few friends in with you, tow their cars behind yours, and suddenly, your car has nowhere near the performance it did with just you in it. Aside from adding more RAM, buying a fatser hard drive or stepping up your processor, this is simply an issue with sharing one system between more than one user at the same time, and it can't be remedied.

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