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How do i alter the play speed on audacity?

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 9:14 pm
by nunybw
I have imported a song into audacity but it speeds it up so its over in a second. A track that should go on for several minutes only fills one screen. Any ideas?

Re: How do i alter the play speed on audacity?

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:59 am
by waxcylinder
You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support. Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC & MP2 in 1.3.

The screech is Audacity 1.2's inelegant way of telling you that it can't handle the file type you've given it - in 1.3.x a more appropriate and informative error message appears.

If this is the case you have two basic options:

1. find and use some converter software to convert your file to a type that Audacity supports

2. play the file in any music software that supports that particular file format and record it in Audacity.
stevethefiddle wrote:There's a free program called SUPER by erightsoft that can convert most media file types. If you can convert the files to WAV files that should fix the problem.
WC