Audacity Forum

sorry for the late reply. i missed the reply notification. I've been calling for it to be "advertised" in the Status Bar for some time. The message could come on if you hold CTRL for more than a couple of seconds. Does someone have a better idea? my better idea is to not have it, or at least provide...

shit man i found it. i was holding onto the ctrl key too long when i made a label and that was makibg it play wehn i clicked to select the next bit. how did i manage to turn that on and how do i turn it off? i don't see it in preferences.

Does the location of the waves change just before it starts playing? No it just starts playing. Are you 100% sure that you are not catching the spacebar? 100% What sort of keyboard do you have? just an ordinary usb keyboard Are your keyboard or mouse wireless / bluetooth? no Does your computer have...

no thats not it. its still doing it every time i get a bit of spped up. it dosnt do it when i add markers slowly. i never had this problem with the old version.

i need to add a lot of markers to a song. im doing that with ctrl and b. every now and then playback starts on its own and i have not pressed space or the play buttin i am just adding markers. if i press space to stop it just adds a space in the marker so i press the stop buttin then i have to delet...

thats it. thanks

i used audacity years ago and im sure there was a way to mute part of a recoding, but i cant find it. can anyone help?

if you have a usb turntable connected windows will try to use it for playback. check that windows is playing back through the sound card and not the turntable (if thats the problem). theres also a setting in audacity preferences in the devices section to set the playback option.