Audacity Forum

In this instance, it's actually pulse audio causing the problems. It's glitch-free mode. When I disable it Audacity keeps crashing and speeding. When I enable it, my overall sound is a bit dodgy. Oh, the agony of choice. Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Now I know what's wrong, I can at least work ...

Just a quickie before bed: after a bit of fiddling, I seem to have developed a rather clumsy workaround. I can record from my soundcard using the default pulseaudio settings, but to play the recording back I have to switch to the sound on my video card (HDMI). I can then play and edit, but if I try ...

Yes, but the issue isn't that I'm having a problem with mp3 files. I simply mentioned mp3 as an example. The problem is with sound playback. If I capture my system sound -- so this is before I've exported the raw sound into any format, compressed or otherwise -- the sound plays fast and distorted.

This is a tough one to describe, but I'll do my best. Say I open an mp3 file with Audacity, it imports just fine -- there are no errors, and the wave forms look as they should. But when I press play, Audacity seems to fast forward through the track (at a rate of approximately six times normal speed)...