Exporting Altered My Audacity Project - Help Please

[Fritch]

I just finished editing a podcast, adding multiple tracks for musics, sound effects, etc.

I started exporting as a WAV, then after a minute realized I'd meant to export as MP3. I immediately stopped the WAV export & started the MP3 export.

Upon listening to the mp3, I discovered some things sounded wrong (I'll get to the details below). I returned to the Audacity (.aup) file and found that-- all of a sudden-- the same oddities appeared there.

Here's the situati

At multiple points throughout the .aup, the "chipmunk effect" will suddenly start up. Also, inexplicably, it will play a clip from an entirely different part-- even a different track-- of the project (also with "chipmunk effect"). The strange thing is that graphically the levels appear to be the originals, but someone the sped-up remix heard instead of what should be heard.

I've tried copying the effected bits into a new track, but they sounded the same there.

[steve]

Perhaps your exported file was overwriting one of your original (source) files?

[Fritch]

That sounds like a possibility. Any idea if it's fixable?

[steve]

That sounds like a possibility. Any idea if it's fixable?

You may be able to deduce if you have overwritten a file by looking at the file properties and checking the "file modified" date.

If you have overwritten a file, there's not much that you can do about it - there is a possibility that you may be able to recover the previous version of the file by using an "undelete" tool such as Norton Undelete, or similar, but I think the chances of a successful recovery are very slim.