Audacity Forum

No worries about being long-winded. Detail is good, it helps to create a clear picture.
This all sounds interesting, and I think that I get the gist of it, but I don't quite see where the "60:00 vs 60:20" comes in. Is part of the show pre-recorded and part live?

AVI files are video files. Audacity is an audio editor - it does not support video. Converting AVI files with any software can be tricky because there are so many different types of AVI file. You may be able to convert it with VLC. If you manage to extract the audio from the avi file as a WAV file, ...

Hi Joan. When you record with Audacity, it does not directly create audio files - it creates "Audacity Projects". An Audacity Project is made up of 2 parts: 1) The Audacity Project file ( filename .aup) - This is NOT an audio file. 2) A data folder ("filename_data") - This contai...

I guess it was.
Just delete it. The sender is no longer a member of this forum.

how do I change the internal clock(s) in my sound card (if I even can)? You can't - it's built into the hardware. I'm using an "SB Live! 24 bit" sound card which I thought was very good quality. Yes they're not bad - one of the better "consumer grade" cards (I've got one myself)...

jenny4 wrote:think it's the latest version

Is that 1.2.6 or 1.3.7 or 1.3.8? (look in the Help menu > About Audacity)

jenny4 wrote:the speed of my vocals is running faster than the backing music

2x as fast?
A fraction of a second fast after 3 minutes playing?

Wireless microphones are not always the most reliable things, so I would try and eliminate that from the question if possible. Could you try recording from something else and see if Audacity behaves correctly.

I suspect that the problem is with your sound card. Sound cards use an internal "clock" to regulate the sample rate - problem is that most non-professional sound cards use one clock for recording and another for playback. If the clocks do not match exactly (which they never do) then the pl...

How much faster?
Is the pitch noticeably higher as well?
Which version of Audacity?

My first guess is that you've changed the sample rate from 44100 to 48000.

Standard audio CDs do not contain text data - for commercial CDs, WMP gets the track listing off the internet from the CDs id. For home grown CDs you need to make the track list manually. For data CDs that can be played on a computer but not on CD players, you can Export as MP3 (or another compresse...