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I have recently downloaded an opera from a legal site. It was sent in a zip commpressed file.I transfered it to documents. It is a mono recording.
When I opened in Audacity in sterio one channel was very load white noise and I could hear no music. I cancelled the 2nd track and clicked on mono this did the trick and I transfered to WAV to put it into Media player. However when I played it back it played slow, A bit like an old cassette recording sometimes did. When I play direct from the file it is perfect but I want to transfer to CD so I can listen on the hi-fi. Can anyone tell me what the problem is and if it can be rectified. I have downloaded other operas not sent in a zip file and these are ok. Is it the zip file or something to do with the mono track ?
Ant help would be appreciated.
Thanks

"Zip" is not an audio format, it is a format for data compression. (I'm quite surprised that you got anything meaningful from the zip file).

The music file is compressed inside the "zip" file (like squashing it into a small container).
In order to use the audio file you need to "Extract" the contents of the zip file (sometimes called "unzipping").

On Win XP and later you can extract the contents of a zip file by double clicking on the file, then copying the contents (which should be your audio file) and pasting them somewhere else on your computer (for example to "My Documents", or the Desktop).

It would then be worth looking to see what type of file the audio file is. Windows hides this information by default, so you will need to Right Click on the file and select "Properties" where it will tell you if it is a WAV file, MP3, WMA or whatever. Audacity 1.2 supports WAV, MP3, Ogg and Flac. Other formats must be converted to a supported file type before you import them into Audacity.

zlatan24 » There is nothing at all in the previous posts to suggest that the zip file is corrupted.
I have removed the link from your post as it gives the impression that you are spamming the forum.