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magicno5 - 04 Apr 2006 19:00 GMT

I have a audio track that is recorded as an mp3 and plays in windows media
player. When I import it into publisher and transfer it to the audio track,
the track sounds like it plays at a much higher speed and you hear really
high pitched voices like you are fast forwarding a tape player. The audio is
36 minutes long and appears that long on the timeline. When I play the audio
to preview it before pasting it on the timeline, the timing is normal and the
voices sound fine.
I am trying to create a audio background to a slide presentation and I can't
get past this problem.
Any ideas out there for why this is happening?

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Ed Bennett - 04 Apr 2006 19:35 GMT

> I have a audio track that is recorded as an mp3 and plays in windows
> media player. When I import it into publisher and transfer it to the
> audio track, the track sounds like it plays at a much higher speed
> and you hear really high pitched voices like you are fast forwarding
> a tape player.

I'm very surprised at that, because Microsoft Publisher deos not support the
addition of audio, or even the creation of slide shows.

I would wager that you are either using Microsoft Producer or Microsoft
PowerPoint.

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DavidF - 04 Apr 2006 20:59 GMT

Not totally true Ed. You can add a background sound to a Publisher web page
(your favorite part of Publisher, I know <grin>).

If the user is indeed adding sound to a web page, perhaps they need to
change the format?

DavidF

> > I have a audio track that is recorded as an mp3 and plays in windows
> > media player. When I import it into publisher and transfer it to the
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> Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher

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Ed Bennett - 04 Apr 2006 21:20 GMT

DavidF <Nope@nospam.com> was very recently heard to utter:

> Not totally true Ed. You can add a background sound to a Publisher
> web page (your favorite part of Publisher, I know <grin>).

*SCREAMS*

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Ed Bennett - 04 Apr 2006 21:21 GMT

DavidF <Nope@nospam.com> was very recently heard to utter:

> Not totally true Ed. You can add a background sound to a Publisher
> web page (your favorite part of Publisher, I know <grin>).

Anyhew, I'm pretty certain that there's no timeline in Publisher to paste
the sound on to.

(Although that doesn't stop people requesting templates for them)

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Claude - 30 Apr 2006 18:58 GMT

Hi Magicno5.

I am a composer & studio operator. The answer lies somewhere in what
transfer system/method u used. Music files are digitised at specific sampling
rates.The higher the sampling rate, the better your repro quality. However,
when you sampled the source at frequency x, then change the sampling rate to
a higher one, it has the effect of speeding up the tape (raise in general
pitch.) Somewhere in your conversion process, your sampling rate was upped,
without keeping your harmonics constant. That's all I can help you with at
this oint, because I don't know what system u used. Claude.

> I have a audio track that is recorded as an mp3 and plays in windows media
> player. When I import it into publisher and transfer it to the audio track,
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> get past this problem.
> Any ideas out there for why this is happening?

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