why is audacity playback too fast by default

I have been using audacity to record live streams not used for a while must of had an update because three things are different now I use it

one it waits for noise to start recording, not just start recording ?

two the recording plays back at a faster rate by default ?

three no stereo mix option (have to use wasapi?) I was api before

can turn recording down to 0.01 rate what's this?, but why do this in first place is there an alternative programme u use I cant believe they have done this to the program unusable for me now

As far as the playback speed is concerned, you need to make sure the sample rate of the sound you are trying to record/playback matches the sample rate of your playback device in Windows (for example, 44.1kHz versus 48kHz)

Windows sound properties are in the control panel.

tblob said:

As far as the playback speed is concerned, you need to make sure the sample rate of the sound you are trying to record/playback matches the sample rate of your playback device in Windows (for example, 44.1kHz versus 48kHz)

Windows sound properties are in the control panel.

audacity use to do this for u why have they changed it ? plus I cant find what you are on about I think its more a program thing than my settings thing but cant be sure cheers anyway

As an audio engineer of 30 years, who has used Audacity since it came out, I can tell you then when you have unexpected things happen with playback/recording speed, 99% of the time it is a frequency mismatch between software and hardware.

fireberd said:

I have the latest Audacity version. I don't use it as I have a recording studio and use Sonar. But, I have it for testing and support for my clients. I still have the Stereo Mix option and set as source.

I would suggest uninstalling Audacity, restart the PC and then do a fresh install and see what happens. If you are just using the PC's audio, make sure Stereo Mix is set as the default recording device.

I did this but still having problems, thinks its more the program has evolved since I last used, not for a while, but in my opinion not in a good way? ... or I got a virus I cant find, see screen shot below


screen capture windows 7

also just noticed I got sony sound forge audio studio, free with a copy Vegas movie studio hd platinum 11

but would still like to no where im going wrong, or if I have a problem, by the way the sound forge works perfectly and probably use in future

fireberd said:

That's the same thing as mine but I'm not getting speed ups. I found this setting under the Effect drop down menu.

Check yours and see if its something other than zero

below is what I got when I did what u got above but not sure what it means cheers



free upload pictures

fireberd said:

That's the same thing I have, I accidentally opened the old version. I have the new version and get what you are seeing.

since I used the sound forge programme audacity seems to be working normally again but wasn't so don't know what happened or why..... but also it has changed all programs evolve but I don't like it, maybe I did some thing wrong ?