PROBLEM WITH QUICK-PLAY (in time-line) AUTOMATICALLY ACTIVATING THE LOOP
I have a big problem with Audacity 3.1 that I haven’t encountered in the previous versions.
I use Quick-play a lot when editing podcasts, and I’m used to clicking on the time-line (all the time, back and forth, many times a minute) to play.
Doing that has always felt very intuitive.
But now – all of a sudden – I have to click TWICE, to start the play. The reason seems to be that when I click in the time-line the Loop-function (a black down-pointing arrow) appears.
It does this automatically, even if I have turned the Loop-function OFF.
Obviously, I can just click again on the same point, and play works, but it’s very irritating to have to click twice everytime.
Does this also happen if you hold your mouse very, very still when clicking? I think this is happening because you’re ever so slightly moving your cursor when clicking, causing your action to be technically a click-and-drag action instead of a click action. (Or in other words, we probably should build a “deadzone” for the click-and-drag-to-loop feature so even if you move your cursor for, say, 10px it’d still just quickplay)
Wow!! It works!
If I stop and hold the finger very still on the time-line (via my laptop’s touchpad), and then click, no loop is created.
It would be highly appreciated if it was fixed though, since it slows down the work flow a little though when you suddenly need to be “very, very still”.
Thanks!