Audacity Forum

Is the reason I need to set this to 200 a known bug? Is it worth investigating?

Assuming I keep this setting, is it possible to combine two mp3s using audacity into a single file which has the sound of both combined?

I am not doing overdubbing or streaming. So this looks like a good solution.
Thank you for the assistance

okay I changed "Audio to buffer" to 200 and it now plays correctly.

Is that a reasonable approach?

No, this problem occurs even when I play an mp3 produced by someone else

I am using Audacity 2.0.5, installed by the Ubuntu package.
I open any mp3 file and then play it using output device HDA Intel: VT2020 Analog (hw: 0,0).
The sound seems to be at the right speed but is a bit distorted.

However, if I play the mp3 with mplayer, it sounds right

My card is HDA Intel (chip VIA VT2020)

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http://www.via.com.tw/en/support/tech_faq.jsp

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