Aud sped up... Not sample rate as far as I can tell

[Star_Engineering]

I was using Audacity 1.2.3 at an Atlanta radio station. One of our producers was trying to use Audacity to edit down an interview. The recording was stored via OMT iMediaLogger as a 16-Bit 44.1 kHz PCM Wave File.

When loading it into Audacity, it plays back sped up - not "chipmunks" sped up... more like MASSIVE time compression sped up. It is complete unintelligible. The file we are using to test the problem is approximately 18s long, but in Audacity it comes up as approximately 1.3s long. However... I can play the file in Windows Media Player 11 and it works just fine. I can play the file in Adobe Audition and it works fine as well.

Changing the Sample Rate in Audacity does not affect it at all... it just slows down the horrific digital sound.

The weird part is that I put another 16-Bit, 44.1 kHz PCM Wave file into Audacity (recorded from a different source) and it works just fine. Also, if I put the offending file in Adobe Audition or Switch and reconvert it to a .WAV file it works fine in Audacity.

Something is altering this file, but I can't figure out what it is and why it only seems to occur with Audacity. Are there any known glitches with Audacity like this... perhaps misinterpreting some sort of metadata or something?

- Joshua

[Star_Engineering]

I forgot to note: We upgraded to v1.2.6, but the problem is still occuring

[alatham]

It's probably not a standard wav file. Audacity does things like this if you try to import AAC (mp4) files, and other compressed files that Audacity can't recognize.