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Whenever I copy something to another track, it's sped up. How do I stop this?

Upgrade to Audacity 1.3.8

BTW, Audacity is a multi-track editor - there is rarely any need to copy from one track to another - just use multiple tracks. Tracks will be mixed together when you Export your finished audio file.

it just randomly stopped speeding it up today, it it does it again, I'll come back...

It's happening again, if I copy a track to another track, the audio is sped up. How do I fix this?
As you can see in the image below, the tracks circled are the same piece of audio, but when copied, the audio is much smaller, as in, it has been sped up.

What project rate and bitrate do you have your Audacity Preferences set to?

WC

I have no idea. How do I find that out?

Project rate should be shown at the bottom right hand corner of your Audacity window.

In 1.2.x go to Edit > Preferences > Quality - there you can see (and change) samplse rate and sample format.

Project Rate: 44100
Bit Rate: 32-bit float

Will that help?

In Audacity each audio track may have its own sample rate.

When you record a track it will use the default rate for the Audacity Project, but if you Import an existing file the sample rate of that track will be whatever the sample rate of the file was. For example, if your project sample rate is 44100 and you Import (or drag and drop) a file with a sample rate of 22050, the sample rate of that track will be 22050.

Audacity 1.2.x uses just one sample rate for a track. This means that if you copy and paste part of a track into a track that has a different sample rate, the pasted audio will play at the wrong speed (it will play at the same sample rate as the track is set at).

As said earlier, it is rarely necessary to paste clips into the same track as Audacity is a multi-track program, but Audacity 1.3 is able to support multiple audio clips in the same track at different sample rates.