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Yep, understand all that. actually, I use the on-board sound for Skype alone via head phones, and route everything else to the card. Seems to work just fine.

Thanks for all your help Steve

Thanks Steve, this will work for now. Odd that it just stopped working, and given some time, I will track it down. But yes, this works for now, and glad to see it was not an Audacity problem. Now, if I could just figure out how to identify the on-board audio chip to remove the Microsoft driver, I co...

One more update:
if I change the input device from "Stereo Mix" on the C-Media card to "Wave" from the same card, the audio is recorded correctly.

Might have to be a work around for me.

Odd!

Thanks KOZ. I was told that Acer disabled the loopback ability of their card to "reduce copying of copyrighted material." When i list recording devices, the internal card does not show up at all (there was no "stereo mix" shown.) I have no idea who's hardware the mother board car...

I did a few tests, and yes, it appears to be exactly 2x the speed. I tried recording 10 seconds, and playback was 5 seconds, and I opened the playback file with VLC, and set it to 0.5x playback, and it sounded correct (except for the choppiness of the recording and playback alteration taking place.)...

Update: This seems to not be an Audacity problem after all. I downloaded "Free Hi-Q Recorder" and recoded a stream, and it is showing the exact same problem, audio recorded is played back at a much faster speed, although the pitch stays correct. Sound recorded via a USB mic is recorded and...

I will start with the usual apologies if this has been posted before, as I cannot find any reference to this exact problem by searching... With both releases 1.3.11 and 1.3.12, while I can record and get sound into the program from my audio card, when I play back (in the program) the recorded audio,...