Hi
How do I move a label so that a line also appears on the waveform window in sync with the label. I’ve done it a few times by accident but when I want to do it, I can’t find how to.
Is it a modifier key thing?
Thanks in advance.
Try moving the label below the track, then right clicking on the label and look for a checkmark option to enable sync.
I’ve played around with this a bit. There is no context-menu item for sync that I can find.
What I have found is this.
Immediately after you create the label (type the label text then press return or enter), you can move the label and the editing cursor moves with it. As soon as you click anywhere in the audio track, the editing cursor does not appear above the label when you click on it, and there is no cursor in the audio track as you move the label.
I swear that yesterday I synced a label with a track by right clicking on it. But the label was a transcript generated by OpenVINO. Maybe that was different.
I only have 5 options: cut, copy, paste, delete, edit
Nope, doesn’t work for me.
If I hold the cursor just above a label, I get a yellow line above, which is different from the black line I initially asked about, but that yellow line is probably good enough for my editing purposes. I’d prefer the moving black line.
Why the black line appears sometimes and not others is still a mystery to me.
OK, thanks, I found the menu item but it doesn’t appear to have much to do with my original question.
@steve do you know anything about this seemingly undocumented behaviour?
It’s not a “modifier key thing”, it’s an Audacity version thing.
In older versions of Audacity you could click on the label’s text area to select the label. If the label is a region label. this would select the labelled region in all tracks. If the label is a point label, it would extend a line across all tracks.
In new versions of Audacity, the ability to select a label by clicking in the text region has been removed. I suspect that it is an unintended consequence of this that the above behaviour no longer works.
For region labels, you can get the old behaviour by clicking on the horizontal bar of the label. It may be necessary to click on the bar twice to select the labeled region, which I guess is a bug but who knows? Of course this does not work for point labels because point labels don’t have a horizontal bar.
I’ve found a workaround for point labels, which is:
- Click on the label track to the left of the point label
- Press the Tab key to jump to the next label
- “Select menu > Tracks > In All Tracks”
- Click on the circle on the label stem to drag the label
Bloody hell! A workaround will do for me. Thanks @steve !!! 
This is really so useful to me for precise editing.
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