Check these out on iTunes. For only $20 total you can download 226 tunes. They play 3 tunes in a set pretty much as you would hear at a session. This is a great deal!
Thanks for the tip. Is it possible to use the iTunes store without having iTunes installed? Or is there another place where one can buy that stuff?
You can download the same tunes for free at http://comhaltas.ie/shop/detail/foinn_seisiun_book_volume_1/ and http://comhaltas.ie/shop/detail/foinn_seisiun_book_volume_2/.
peace,
Sonja
If you have quicktime Pro,you can. Apple wants you to buy the upgrade to do it. Does anybody know of a tool that can download these in mp3 format without resorting to Apple’s software? 
There’s a download audio link on each page that is a direct link to the mp3 file, you should be able to right click* on it in your browser and save it to your hard drive.
*Or whatever the Mac equivalent is.
[Edit to add…Great! thanks for the link!]
Right clicking only lets you save the link to the file. I can’t do anything with it after that. I want to be able to slow it down to listen more carefully. 
There are tons of mp3 players out there, I’m sure iTunes can handle it without the slowdown aspect. I’ll let someone more familiar with Macs give better suggestions.
I use Transcribe!</a](http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/overview.html">Transcribe!</a)> to slowdown tunes, they have a Mac version also. It’s not free but you can try it out before you buy it.
That’s good to know you can download for free. The only drawback is that you’ll have to do it one by one. If you’ve got the time it’ll work. Otherwise $20 isn’t really too much of an outlay.
The tunes are downloaded in m4p format (DRM protected). This can be removed and your songs can be transformed into m4a or mp3 format. Please see my earlier post about the QT Fairuse program.
Duh! I forgot to add that I use a PC. The quicktime was something I had to download for certain files.
By the way, where is the thread on quicktime’s fair use policy? 
You have to first click the name of the tune; that gives you a page that says “listen to audio” (or something like that). If you now right-click on that link, “save this link” will give you an mp3 (which can be slowed down with Audacity or other slow-down software).
Finally I did it correctly. I had been stupidly starting the tunes before trying to save, and Quicktime was the only player on my computer that could play it directly. Needless to say, it did not want to allow me to save it at all. All I had to do was listen to your instructions.
I use a free program called ‘Audacity’ to slow down tunes. It’s an audio editor so it can do much more, but it is useful because you have a visual reference for points in a tune which you can then use to stop and start as you please. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Wow - this is great! Thanks for sharing!
here’s the topic
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=50476&highlight=
please see the jhymn website for further info.
http://hymn-project.org/
It kills me that iTunes is now charging more for DRM free music. After I buy my music, which I always do, I want to be able to place that music on any platform or for any use I choose. Including the Amazing Slow Downer or similar software.
I’m amazed that people even want their music in mp3 format, when ogg vorbis is superior in every way. I buy all my music in physical CD format so that I can encode it to any digital format that I want, as many times as I want.
Not everyone is a colossal nerd who chooses media formats based on politics or inaudible technical differences. 
What an ignorant opinion you have. I can easily hear the definition of a 96kbps OGG file over the same music encoded in even 160kbps mp3. Therefore ogg vorbis allows a larger number of files on the storage device than mp3 does. And as I said before, choosing music in the CD form allows infinite choices…
audacity is great… i use it for editing and ripping youtube audios. i prefer the amazing slow downer for practicing music, though. it’s the same difference, but a lot easier to use. it’s worth the forty bucks, i think!
thanks a bunch! i’ve been wanting these cd’s for like three years.
On behalf of colossal nerds everywhere … I protest! 
we got 'em surrounded