audacity records audio extremely fast

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Re: audacity records audio extremely fast

Post by billw58 » Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:14 pm

a55kickulater wrote:it's set to "2 channel, 16 bit 44100 Hz CD Quality"
That's the Windows sound control panel setting. Now what do you find in Audacity when you go to Edit > Preferences, then the Quality section

http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... references

That link assumes you've taken our advice and upgraded to 1.3.12. If you are still using 1.2.x, the preferences dialog looks quite different.

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Re: audacity records audio extremely fast

Post by a55kickulater » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:55 pm

same as windows

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Re: audacity records audio extremely fast

Post by billw58 » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:21 pm

a55kickulater wrote:same as windows
OK then. Sorry, I'm out of ideas. I've never seen or heard of this problem before.

Anyone else?

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Re: audacity records audio extremely fast

Post by steve » Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:39 am

billw58 wrote:That link assumes you've taken our advice and upgraded to 1.3.12
Is this the case?
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Re: audacity records audio extremely fast

Post by eortega » Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:11 am

i had this same stupid problem but I got a friend who is obsessed with audacity and he fixed it 1-2-3 so I'll ask him what he did or tell him to join this forum and explain.

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Re: audacity records audio extremely fast

Post by steve » Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:15 am

eortega wrote:I'll ask him what he did or tell him to join this forum and explain.
If your friend is able to help answer a few user questions on the forum he will be extremely welcome :)
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