soundfile fast-fowards when played in Audacity

[marco1ca]

I have an Olympus DS-50 recorder. It plays WMA files. These files have worked just fine in past Audacity programs. When I open a file in Audacity and play it, it zips through the file, as if it was in a very fast forward mode. How do I get these files to play normal in this program.

thanks..

[Irish]

Audacity can't read WMA files.

You will need to convert the file to another format (WAV for example) for Audacity to be able to read it.
Take a look at this FAQ page http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=file ... roprietary

PO'L

[steve]

Audacity can't read WMA files.

That's not quite 100% accurate any more.
Now that Audacity has FFMpeg support, it can import and Export any file types that are supported by FFMpeg. This means that Audacity can (theoretically) support many more file types. However, in practice, this depends on the abilities of the particular build of FFMpeg that you have installed. For example, on my computer, I can Import WMA files, but if I export as WMA the files don't work - the version of FFMpeg that I have installed on my (Linux) computer does not correctly encode the files. As FFMpeg develops and becomes more standardised these kinds of problems should disappear.

To have any chance of supporting WMA files you need to be using an up to date version of Audacity 1.3.x and have FFMpeg installed. Even then I would not like to offer any guarantees as there are many different builds of FFMpeg and at the moment they vary in terms of supported formats.

So in the short term, yes you are right Irish. On Windows machines you can use SUPER by erightsoft (free) or a similar program to convert the file to WAV format (which is fully supported by Audacity).

[Irish]

Thanks for the clarification

PO'L