fast music

[Guest]

i am having trouble playing music. no matter what software i use, i have
tried with itunes, windows media player and real player, when i music on my
laptop the songs play fast. some songs sound as if they are being sung by the
chipmunks. does anybody know how i can fix this? i should also add that when
i put these songs onto my ipod they sound fine.
thanks,
dp.

 

[Chris Laarman]

piechucker ([email protected]) in
(e-mail address removed):

i am having trouble playing music. no matter what software i use, i
have tried with itunes, windows media player and real player, when i
music on my laptop the songs play fast. some songs sound as if they
are being sung by the chipmunks. does anybody know how i can fix
this? i should also add that when i put these songs onto my ipod they
sound fine.

I can't imagine that happening to each and every song.
I should think that somehow the properties ("sample rate"?) of some songs
have been changed.

1) Check this (like by finding songs that still play correctly).

2) The easiest way of restoring would be: copying these songs from your
iPod, or downloading them again.

3) A slightly more elaborat way would be: changing their speeds in software
like Audacity (freeware, http://audacity.sourceforge.net/).

4) Note that Windows Media Player provides a slider (Play | Play_Speed) for
playing back at custom speeds. In Real Player, search the Help for "Speed",
the topic about hardware compatibility.

5) You may have some Speed effect installed (like in the DirectX subsystem
of Windows), or (if possible) adjusted the audio hardware of your laptop in
such a way.

Hope some of this helps.

 

[Galen]

In piechucker had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

i am having trouble playing music. no matter what software i use, i
have tried with itunes, windows media player and real player, when i
music on my laptop the songs play fast. some songs sound as if they
are being sung by the chipmunks. does anybody know how i can fix
this? i should also add that when i put these songs onto my ipod they
sound fine.
thanks,
dp.

You might want to try Zach's page but I'm not sure why it'd be effecting
iTunes.

http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#chipmunks

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[zachd [MSFT]]

As far as I'm aware, iTunes (and QuickTime) use Dsound too, although you can
get them to use waveOut. So fixing the DSound issue for WMP should fix it
for iTunes. If it's not possible to fix but only to work-around, then all
the players would need to be modified to stop using waveOut. =\

 

[Galen]

In zachd [MSFT] had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

As far as I'm aware, iTunes (and QuickTime) use Dsound too, although
you can get them to use waveOut. So fixing the DSound issue for WMP
should fix it for iTunes. If it's not possible to fix but only to
work-around, then all the players would need to be modified to stop
using waveOut. =\

*grins* I was initially just going to blame it on iTunes but then I figured
I'd play nice and send 'em to your site. ;-) Hopefully that gets them
squared away.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes