I'm working with Audacity 1.2.5 on a Mac OSX 10.6.8.
I have a wma file from a friend's digital recorder. The file plays fine on Quicktime. The file is about a bit over an hour of a talk. When I open it with Audacity, it opens, and plays, but it seems to be compressed - when it plays the whole thing comes out as a rush of nonsense sound that lasts only a couple seconds. I tried exporting the file as an mp3, but when I opened it, the result was the same. Is there a way to get this into normal time so it can be edited?
playing WMA files
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
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playing WMA files
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kozikowski
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Re: playing WMA files
You can install the FFmpeg software and that should solve the screeching sound problem.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown
Koz
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown
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Gale Andrews
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Re: playing WMA files
Just to be clear, Audacity 1.2 does not recognise FFmpeg, and we can't offer any help with 1.2 as it is obsolete (please see the pink panel at the top of the page).kozikowski wrote:You can install the FFmpeg software and that should solve the screeching sound problem.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/fa ... tml#ffdown
You can download the latest Audacity 2.0.5 from http://audacityteam.org/download/mac and then install FFmpeg as Koz suggested.
Gale
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