sound/music playback on XP Home Edition

[leeson]

Yesterday while playing music from a manufactured CD, the sound, via my two speakers, seemed suddenly to slow, not unlike the effect of hampering a turntable upon which a vinly record is playing.  Im short, the voice of the singer appeared to deepen and slowed down.  The same problem exists whether the source is a CD, a music download., spoken commentary from a sorts event, and so on.

I would be grateful if you might offer some tests/checks that I, a complete novice, might readily follow, or even a remedy or two!

Thanking you in anticipation.

Tom O'Connor

[quaxo]

What are you using to play these sources? Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Creative MediaSource, something else? And what version of the program are you using?

A lot of more recent versions of these programs have time scaling, which affects playback speed, which might be the issue here.

[leeson]

Thanks for the advice/guidance.  As if miraculously, the 'fault' remedied itself and at the moment all is well.  For your information though, I use Windows Media Player 10, as I also use iTunes, and Creative MediaSource Player as well.

Thanks for your time.  I hope the problem here has been cured.