Switched stereo channels

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Switched stereo channels

Post by Uli » Tue May 19, 2009 3:28 pm

Hi,

some users of Audacity have reported that a given stereo-track with a testsignal (left channel playing first, right channel playing last) is playing exactly the opposite. This means that Audacity is switching the channels. This is observed with 1.2.6 as well as with 1.3.7

Any explanation? Any parameter to set?

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Re: Switched stereo channels

Post by steve » Tue May 19, 2009 5:22 pm

Uli wrote:Any explanation?
Perhaps they have a lead wired up the wrong way round. There are no settings in Audacity that relate to this.
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Re: Switched stereo channels

Post by Uli » Tue May 19, 2009 6:33 pm

The fault has been reported in one case in combination with Vista.

The playback has been tested with Audacity and with another player and the playback by Audacity has swapped channels.

With Audacity 1.2.4 the file looks correctly like
Image

and with 1.37 I have got the picture
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Re: Switched stereo channels

Post by steve » Tue May 19, 2009 10:24 pm

Uli wrote:The fault has been reported in one case in combination with Vista.
Where was it reported? Reported by who?
Uli wrote:With Audacity 1.2.4 the file looks correctly like
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and with 1.37 I have got the picture
That's quite odd - while the two look similar, the time scale indicates that the two screen shots are not the same file - so what are you trying to say?
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