It would be nice if we could save a zoomed view to be able to quickly get back to a specific location. A hotkey to save a view, and another to restore it would be fantastic.
Another wish is to lock a track so it’s can be inadvertently modified. A lock icon on the left side of the track could work for this. Sometimes I have a track that serves as a timing reference to modify the others. Some projects take hours to edit. If I accidentally do something to my reference track and don’t notice it right away, then all the work after that point is wrong. I’ve done this before and it’s very disheartening to have to toss hours of work.
Maybe I’m not looking hard enough, but I can’t seem to find ways to do these thing. Forgive me if I’ve missed a tool already there.
When I try this it doesn’t recall the previous view, instead the time on the left and right extremes of the screen remain the same. It only changes the cursor which isn’t quite what I’m after. I was thinking more like…
View > Zoom > Save Zoom
and
View > Zoom > Restore Zoom
I can’t figure out how to use this feature to prevent editing of a track.
The latest incarnation of Audacity (2.2.1) allows different colored waveforms …
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/new_features_in_this_release.html#colors
Color-coding does help differentiating between tracks, (so less likely to modify one by mistake)
e.g. Color all the finished tracks red to remind you which ones not to touch,
(coloring isn’t a lock : it won’t prevent you modifying the tracks, it’s just a reminder of what’s what).