playback speed

[reallyamermaid]

Hello. I am new here. I imported a lengthy audio track into Audacity. I was hoping to select a portion of it and save that in its own new file. When I try to play it back, I get a super-condensed version. What should be a 30-minute slice is played back in less than a second. Chipmunks on crack. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you so much for your time.

[thijs]

Hi,

i have the same problem. If i want to listen music every music has a problem with the playback speed.
The problem is only in the Windows Media player. Other players like quictime work fine.

What can we do!!?

[waxcylinder]

You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support . Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC & MP2 in 1.3.

If this is the case you have two basic options:

1. find and use some converter software to convert your file to a type that Audacity supports

2. play the file in any music software that supports that particular file format and record it in Audacity.

WC