How to insert the Index Marks while recording in Audacity?

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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index mark or a temp mark (Olympus)
Index Marks are digital tags that can be inserted while recording or during playback. They are used to skip forward or backward in recordings to pre-selected points. Up to 16 Index Marks can be added to a single file.

How to insert the Index Marks while recording in Audacity?

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Audacity doesn’t have Index Marks or Edit Points, but it does have Labels. You can plant labels during a recording.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html

Koz

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Thx. Any tip of quick labeling while busy watching everything else during the recording?
Just need to access the segment’s start/ end points later for quick editing/deleting etc.

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use Ctrl + M to set a label marker at the current recording, or playback position

You can type into the label to provide id as the recording, or playback continues

WC

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Thanks.

  1. what is the easiest way to skip forwards/backward etc to label 1 , then to label 2 locations.

  2. if an when stop at label 1/2, how to copy/paste (short cut) the current stop location hh:mm:ss directly into the start/end postion respectively for selecting purpose?

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You can jump to last/next label using “Alt”+“←”, “Alt”+“→” …

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_tracks.html#navigating

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Found the Left/Right arrows
Alt key works fine with them;
Alt also works with TAB/Sht+Tab to skip forward/backward etc.
Thanks.