Needed Audacity Updates

[tribeofjesse]

While the two updates that have happened since I started with Audicity may be important to some, they seem really trivial to me. The following things, I should think, are far more important and need attention. <> The play button works with this Windows 10 computer only about half the time. It ought to work always. <> Audacity’s time/duration sense does not agree with anyone else in the Windows world. A ten second file to everyone else registers at about 11 seconds with Audacity. The discrepancy is proportionally further apart with longer files. Recalibration is needed. <> There is currently no way to zoom ahead: - it is necessary to listen to an entire audio to hear the ending. Windows media players, such as Power Media Player for Dell, don’t work that way. A user can zoom ahead to wherever the user wants. The problem there is that the media player’s time does not match Audacity’s. To me these seem like constructive suggestions which should not be taken negatively. Audacity is terrific - I mean REALLY terrific - and it can be even better.

[romontschun]

@tribeofjesse

<> The play button works with this Windows 10 computer only about half the time. It ought to work always.

For me, it always works…

@tribeofjesse

<> Audacity’s time/duration sense does not agree with anyone else in the Windows world. A ten second file to everyone else registers at about 11 seconds with Audacity. The discrepancy is proportionally further apart with longer files. Recalibration is needed.

A “ten second file” can be 10,1 seconds - should the time be rounded up or down? You can see quite exactly in Audacity, how long a sound is when you look at the wave form. Just increase the zoom level to see it better.

If Audacity’s measurements are really wrong, you should post the problem in their Github area. The forum is just a help forum in the sense “users help other users”. However, I have never used Github…

@tribeofjesse

<> There is currently no way to zoom ahead: - it is necessary to listen to an entire audio to hear the ending.

I do not see your problem in any version of Audacity. You can place your mouse pointer and then click anywhere to start from a place “neat the end”.

@tribeofjesse

Windows media players, such as Power Media Player for Dell, don’t work that way.

One program does not necessarily need to work like the other. If everything were exactly the same, why would you need it?

BTW: instead of only doing continuous text in this forum (and separating your points by <>) you could use lists (with only points/bullets, or with numbers). It would help readers to understand better and faster… And while you’re at it, look what all the other tools in the message composition window can do.

[Wrecks0]

You can move through the audio clip(s) by pressing the Page Up and Page Down keys multiple times. Each moves the tracks left or right a “screenful” at a time.