can't change playback speed

[zina]

I loaded 1.2 and that went well, then I tried to play a song (about 10 minutes long) on audacity, but it played the song in about 1.5 seconds, just a high-pitched garble. I have looked in the help stuff and on-line, but I cannot figure out how to slow down the playback. I cannot even find the topic listed anywhere. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

[waxcylinder]

You are almost certainly trying to import a file type that Audacity does not support. Audacity Supports WAV, MP3, OGG and FLAC & MP2 in 1.3.

The screech is Audacity 1.2's inelegant way of telling you that it can't handle the file type you've given it - in 1.3.x a more appropriate and informative error message appears.

If this is the case you have two basic options:

1. find and use some converter software to convert your file to a type that Audacity supports

2. play the file in any music software that supports that particular file format and record it in Audacity.

There's a free program called SUPER by erightsoft that can convert most media file types. If you can convert the files to WAV files that should fix the problem.

WC

[steve]

With the assistance of "FFmpeg", Audacity 1.3.12 supports a lot more audio formats than the old 1.2.6 version.
http://audacityteam.org/download/
http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... tallffmpeg

I think that SUPER is Windows only (and this is the Mac OS X forum).
You may be able to convert the files using iTunes.

[waxcylinder]

I think that SUPER is Windows only (and this is the Mac OS X forum).
You may be able to convert the files using iTunes.

Oops, yes I hadn't noticed properly this was the MAC section

In which case I'm guessing the the posters file is in Apple's AAC format - and as Steve says you can ue iTunes to convert that to WAV for Audacity import.

WC