Audacity Forum

The crucial information lies in the questions that Gale asked.
Much of the behaviour that you describe sounds like it is probably normal, but we don't know exactly what you have done or are doing.

it means that they play at half the speed as recorded. recording was done at 96000 hertz, it plays at 44100 when opening the au file with audacity...

camembert

they play at half the sample rate.

What does that mean?
Koz

For the parts where only the lead singer is singing - no problem. For the parts where he is harmonising, no chance.
Do you need help with the possible part?

sorry about the elves, i didn't want to cause anxiety...

i'm using a macbook pro 13" with os x 10.6.3

ready to hear the rest of your advice...

camembert

... i hope not... automator was mentioned in the handbook for my version (1.3.12) if using audacity with osx which is the case. thanks for the help up to now! regards, camembert

You're causing a bit of concern with the elves. This is a first-ever failure of this kind.

Congratulations!

Which OS-X are you running?

Apple > About This Mac.

Which Mac? I'm watching my 15" MacBook Pro from across the room.

Koz

You should probably make safety copies of all your original files and place them in a separate folder while we hash this out. All the little .au files past about the fourth one should open up and play in Audacity. As you said, they're tiny files and each one has a snippet of the show. Don't mess wit...

here are 3 files: the 'aufnahmen steffen barbara' = 'aufnahmen steffen barbara 2' are the projects i thought were safe the 'SFSB Werbung Recovery' is my attempt to recover the files using the import audio function for the au files found in the data folder. i only used it on one folder, there are thr...

@koz

no i didn't manage anything, i just saved the project and put my computer on stand by.

@gale
i'll try to send you the aup files. thanks for your quick help!