Itunes 9 plays music too fast

Just transferred all my songs from old computer to new and they all play too fast. They all sound like chipmunk songs. Never seen or heard of this before. Any ideas?

I too have this problems. I was just listening to some old Iron maiden songs that decidedly play too fast . I never noticed this before so I'm quite sure it's related to the new version of iTunes (9).

A very strange problem indeed. I have not encountered this, and I have no idea if this will help you for sure, but Quicktime has a feature to playback music in a faster speed. It's a Quicktime menu option called "Show A/V Controls" under the "Window" menu (on the PC). The bottom right of the window that pops-up from that has "Playback speed" and if you drag that to "1x", that might help. It's the only thing I can think of. iTunes uses Quicktime components quite a bit. Do the songs play fast on your iPod?

Try adjusting the EQ and other sound settings

You may have fixed this by now, but I was having the same problem with podcasts and audiobooks playing on my iPhone - they play fine straight on the computer - and found out what was wrong.

In the upper right corner of the screen, below the remaining time counter, is a tiny box that should say "1x" Mine had somehow changed to "2x" and a couple of clicks reset it to 1x.

If your problem is on you macbook, perhaps there is a comparable symbol there to look for.