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Yes, sorry, into a green socket with the same kind of plug as regular headphones ("mini-jack"?). I also have USB headphones, which again have always been fine.

It's a regular desktop PC. The speakers aren't built-in, they plug into the tower. There's a headphone socket, and that works fine.

Thanks! Yes, the same thing happened with a generated tone. Playback lasted roughly three seconds. I tried playing another audio file, as you suggested; it doesn't sound high-pitched so much as it does like static on the radio - crackling. I normally listen to sound through speakers. Other audio on ...

I'm running Audacity 2.0.3 on Xubuntu 13.10. I recorded a number of projects in Audacity back in October, with no problems; playback worked fine, everything was as expected. However, I have just tried to play some of them again, and the playback speed is enormously too fast. I haven't changed any se...