Do you know of another editing software package I should use?  As soon as I change the bit rate to 8000Hz it slows everything down.  I had come across a posting on this site to use Audacity.  Do you have another suggestion?

Thanks,
Jeff

Audacity is a pretty decent tool. Can you give some reference for "Slow"? Is the time (length) of the music file increased? For example, was the original music 2 minutes long and after changing it to 8000 bps, has it gone up in duration? Can you attach both files (original/processed) to this forum?

-Saurabh

I had this to happen to me once before.  Using Audacity, I was splicing two different audio files together. (an RTP stream .au file and a music track .wav file)

The RTP stream was set to 8000Hz while the other track was saved at 44100Hz.  Once I saved the music track at 8000Hz, it sounded awful.  To be completely honest, the only work around I came up with was tweaking the speed and tempo.

I attempted to work with the tempo/speed but couldn't get it sounding like I wanted it to sound.  I ended up importing the file into our full blown CM and letting it get encoded that way.  Then I took it from CM to CME and everything seems to be working great.  It works for me but not everyone has access to CM like I did.  I wonder if anyone else has a work around for just CME???

Thanks for your imput.  I will post a clip of the "slowed down" file tomorrow.

Jeff