Music cd is playing too quickly in computer

It almost sounds like Mickey Mouse voices when I pop in the music cd in the DVDRW player. I am using Windows Media Player to listen to it. I did a search but came up with nothing on WindowsBBS.

Anyone know what would cause the music cd to play faster than normally?

WinXP Pro w/SP2
AMD Athlon 1700+
768MB PC2100
30GB Harddrive
Soundcard is bundled with motherboard.

 

There is a "speed" conrol slider in Media Player, version 10 I'm sure but don't know about previous editions. Normally it stays at Default which is regular speed. Maybe your's was turned up for some reason. I can't tell you exactly how to find it but open Media Player and check the options. You will find it there somewhere and it offers speed control of anything it plays.

Would bet this is the problem.

 

Speed control location...

In WMP 10, on the menu, select 'View', then 'Enhancements', then click 'Play speed settings'. This should be set to '1.0' (or click the 'Normal' setting). HTH

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We have a number of almost identical computers on our network (Dell Optiplex GX50 and GX150), and we use the same ghost image for both machines. However the sound chip differs in those two models. So what we experience is that one type of machine sounds perfectly fine after a ghost, the other type disregards the correct sound driver (both drivers are installed) and uses the MS default driver causing these machines to sound as if everything is being played through a Smurf Hits filter, needless to say that's amusing for no more than three songs.

The only fix we've found is to reinstall the correct drivers for that model, then it works again.

My recommendation therefore is to check if you have the correct (and newest) driver for your sound card/chip.
To check which drivers are installed for your sound chip, right click on My Computer choose Manage, select Device Manager in the left hand pane, and somewhere under Sound, video and game controllers you'll find your sound chip, right click on that and choose Properties, there's a tab called Driver where you can se the driver provider and version.