problems importing music?!?!

[lauriematt]

hi guys.

recently installed audacious...

imported music from both itunes and directly from a cd

however both times when i click play the file lasts for only a second, and seems extremely high pitched!

any suggestions on how to solve this problem??
thanks

[steve]

Make sure that you are importing a supported format.
http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=file ... roprietary

Audacity can not "import directly from CD". You must either Record, or Rip a CD.

[lauriematt]

Make sure that you are importing a supported format.
http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=file ... roprietary

Audacity can not "import directly from CD". You must either Record, or Rip a CD.

ive also tried importing files from itunes...which are MP3 files arent they?

at any rate this seems to be a common problem with a few other users reporting the same problem.

i will recheck what format the files are stored as...but does anybody else have any suggestions??

[lauriematt]

ive just checked the format of songs in my itunes library and they are AAC.

reading the Audacious website it says that this file format is not useable.

could anyone explain to me how to convert the AAC music file into a suitable format??

many thanks

[waxcylinder]

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.

There's a free program called SUPER by erightsoft that can convert most media file types. If you can convert the files to WAV files that should fix the problem.

WC