Play-at-speed in a loop?

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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Hi there,
(quite new to Audacity 3, was a long-time user of Audacity 2.x on GNU/Linux)

I noticed that with Audacity 3.7.1 (Windows), I can’t find a way to play-at-speed in a loop. Clicking the play-at-speed button (or using an assigned hotkey) just plays once, at given playback speed.

BTW, the play-at-speed once seems to ignore the playback speed, is that intended?

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You have to click on the green triangle play button next to the speed slider …

variable speed loop

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/transport_menu_looping.html

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Thanks for your reply, Trebor.
I think I’ll mostly rewrite what I wrote formerly: a selection is done (few seconds of music), I click the small green triangle in the play-at-speed toobar and… it plays once only, stopping at the end of the selection. Sorry :-).
If I fire the action using a hotkey I just associated to “play-at-speed” in the prefs, same unexpected behaviour.

And still, the other issue is that the play-at-speed-once ignores the playback speed set in the toolbar.

I guess I’m good to report those two issues to github, right?

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Press the “Loop” button after making the selection and before pressing the play-at-speed button.

For more information read the section about looping on the Support site: Making audio loops | Audacity Support

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Okay, I get it. The approach has changed since 2.x, why not!

What about my second statement (about the play-at-speed-once ignores the playback speed ), is this a defect or intended?

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It’s a bug, though there doesn’t appear to be any intention to fix it as the issue has been open for nearly three years

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Thank you Steve.

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