How to Play Songs Backwards on a Mac

http://indilean.com/blog/play-songs-backwards/ this short tutorial walks you through five easy steps to play music backwards on a Mac computer using iTunes, QuickTime and the built in Script Editor.

I use the example song House of Leaves by Circa Survive which has been fully transcribed at http://indilean.com/house-of-leaves/

Steps:

1. Use Finder to navigate to Home/Library/iTunes/ and create a new folder called Scripts if one isnt already there

2. Copy the code just below

3. Use Spotlight Search to find the Script Editor program and launch it

4. Paste in the code you copied earlier and save it as Play Backwards in the Home/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder that we created in step one

5. Now, open the song you want to play backwards in iTunes, get to the part of the song you want to hear and use the script icon at the top to access the Play Backwards command and it will automatically launch Quicktime and begin from where you were

Category:

Music

Tags:

• play songs backwards
• backmasking
• backwards masking
• backwards lyrics

[thalilmacogangsta1]

When I try to save it it says syntax error

[indilean]

@thalilmacogangsta1 Sorry that it's not working for some of you... I'm just a novice programmer so I'm not sure how to fix the syntax error?

[JDW3756]

I keep on getting this error..."The variable first_movie is not defined."

[guyNbluejeans]

Hello. I would like to play a dvd backwards to hear the audio. I have a Mac. Any suggestions?

Also, I would be fine buying a recorder that would record and play backwards should you have any suggestions in that regard. Thanks!!

[lebobaba]

for those of you who get the syntax error and really want this to work there are a few more steps that need to be done. it doesn't really fix the problem but it allows you to play the song backwards.

1. find where it says "set my_movie to first move"

2. put an underscore between first move (first_move)

3. find set ts to time scale of my_movie (two lines below it)

4. save

5. open i tunes play song and run program. the song should stop and a box will appere. click arrows to control the song

[hunterla5]

Awesome tutorial dude, thanks!

[XoXDownAndUnderXoX]

what if it's applescript writer. :/ i dont think it works. thanks so much anyway though :) awesome tutorial.

[rockyrocker101]

awsome dude thanks