why cant i edit tracks saved to my pc from a cd?

[joegarlic]

Whenever i open a track from a cd to edit the track is installed but rather than seeing and hearing the full track a 4 min song is interpreted into about 2 secs and makes a horrible high pitched sound. Songs i have downloaded from the internet work fine and i can hear the whole song. Can anyone offer some advice?

[steve]

How are you "opening a track from a CD"?

Audacity can not play CD tracks, you need to either rip the track from the CD with appropriate software, or play the track with a CD/media player and record it.

In either case, you should rip/record the track as a "16 bit 44.1 kHz WAV" file.

See here for help: http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... import_CDs

[joegarlic]

thanks for the reply i shall give it a go