ID:278094
Apr 11 2009, 1:43 pm
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For some reason whenever I play music, the singers' voices sound like they would if you moved the casette or record faster than it usually spins, creating that "Alvin and the Chipmunks" kind of voice. I don't know how or why it's doing that. It was kind of cool at first but now it's just annoying >.< Can anyone help my dilemma? I've tried slowing down the hardware acceleration and reinstalling the audio driver, but to no avail :(
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Apr 11 2009, 1:59 pm
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You should probably check whether this occurs with all sound or not; it may just be a specific program judging by what you said.
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In response to Jeff8500
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Any music I play, is affected by this "Alvin and the Chipmunks" thing >_> It's hard to tell with other sound effects in .wav or .aif format
The music I have is either .mp3 or .wma Could it possibly be Windows Media Player? Although I didn't have this issue when I used this HDD on a different computer :\ |
In response to Spunky_Girl
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Try listening to audio through another program, such as flash (ex. youtube), etc. (I suggest flash because it is easy to do).
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In response to Jeff8500
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Yes, even videos are sped up :\ Any ideas what's causing this?
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In response to Spunky_Girl
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Is your system overclocked? If it's overclocked and you didn't adjust any settings so it could tell the real clock rate, that would explain it. Or if such a setting got changed somehow, that could also be the case. Likely this problem will also affect your system time as well.
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In response to Lummox JR
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I have no idea if it's overclocked or not. I would sure hope not because it's a fairly old system o.O
Any way I could tell what an overclocked Dell Dimension 4300S with 128MB of VRAM would look like compared to a stock 4300S? (it has an integrated sound chip as far as I'm aware. You know... those three sound outputs in the back or whatever. green, blue, and red/pink >_>) |
Update.
I downloaded VLC media player, mainly because I can throttle the speed of the song down a tiny bit, and discovered that VLC also does the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" effect :\ It's just that the sound lags to all hell whenever I play it in VLC :( Even when I throttle the speed down to 0.95x (which makes it actually sound pretty normal). |
In response to Spunky_Girl
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Do you have a soundcard that lets you apply effects to your output? I used to have a creative soundcard where I could put that "Chipmunk" effect on. Look around in your soundcard settings.
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In response to Airjoe
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It's an integrated sound card. I don't know where to go to access its settings :\ I just did a file search on the name of the driver, but didn't get any results.
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