Is the Genre of the mp3 set to Audiobook? or is the mp3 in the audiobook folder? There is an option under audiobooks for playback speed of Slow, Normal, Fast. It is the only thing that I could think of. Also I assume your firmware it the current version, if not check it.
All is fine, latest firemware, MP3 in music folder etc etc.
neutron,
Thanks for the link, it was interesting reading although I cannot find anything at all wrong with this particular MP3 file.
I have only had my Clip for 3 days and so am testing at the moment but after uploading about 10 albums can confirm that I have only experienced 1 file that played slow… so thats acceptable for me for now.
Have seen this with some MP3s, in some players they run at a much slower speed, depsite file size and properties being correct. I first picked this up when I tried to trim one of them, and it loaded saying it was several times longer that it should have been. Can only assume its something in the header got corrupted (maybe AV or disc problems on PC). Does the track time show up as much longer than it should be?
The only way I’ve been able to fix it was to load the file it into an audio editor and to do a scale-factor edit, and then save it. You have to figure out the scale factor by dividing the correct length by the reported length.
Of course the easiest way is just re-rip or re-download the file.