Opening file issue

[cab101]

When I start up Audacity and open a song, for some reason the whole 3-4 min song is compressed into like a 1-2 second time frame. I know its not the file I'm opening because it's the same thing on all my music files. If someone could help I would appreciate it.

Thanks

[kozikowski]

Audacity will do that to music whose compression it doesn't understand. If you have a two to one compressed music file, Audacity will play it twice as fast.

Install and use the FFMpeg software in this note:


Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.

Koz