Audacity Forum

I've been converting my old audio cassette tapes to MP3 using Audacity, and so far, everything has gone really well.

However-- one of my tapes has kind of a very slightly too-low (and maybe also a very slightly too-slow--I can't quite tell) sound to it, almost as if the actual tape was stretched out just a tiny bit. Is there any way I can fix the audio now that I have it on my computer as an Audacity project so that it doesn't sound like this?

Thanks!

If the tape is stretched, then it is unlikely that it is even and the pitch (and speed) will be going up and down erratically - this is difficult to correct. However, from your description it sounds like maybe the tape was recorded on a machine that was running a little fast, in which case you just need to slow the speed of the whole thing down a little. You can do this easily in Audacity 1.3.x with the "Change Speed" effect.