I am not aware of anything I did, and I didn’t touch the reverse option. While I was working on a project, open files in Audacity started to reverse upon clicking the graphic. Everywhere i clicked, would start play at that point, and often loop back for segments. If I tried to reverse a file from reverse, it might play correctly, but from right to left. The more I messed with it, the more confused it got. I had not saved projects, but I could not correct them to save. I also noticed that sometimes the play arrow had a gap. I was sure it was a virus, but a long scan showed “no threats”. I eventually had to exit and shut down. When I rebooted, functions were back to normal. What should I do if this happens again?
Thanks. But how do I stop that? And why did it reverse, and how do I correct that when it happens? It wouldn’t undo, and reversing again only made it play forward from the right.
That didn’t work. I didn’t mean stop a single play of the reverse, i meant stop it from continuing to happen whenever I play, once I’ve already goofed up and hit the ctrl.
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Oh, I ought to mention that it wasn’t only one Audacity window. I had maybe seven up, all only seconds or a few minutes, and they all behaved the same. I would go to another window and click the graphic, and the loopy reverse kicks in. Most other buttons didn’t work or misfunctiond as well. but I could x out or delete. Kind of an interesting bias there, any other action took me deeper into the mire. In any case, I was forced to comply, seemed my best or only option, considering I was also no longer able to sign in to this forum, nor even activate login, until after I dumped everything and shut down, and rebooted. Since then, everything has seemed fine, but I’m still suspicious. Sorry, I probably should have explained it all at the beginning, I thought it might be something simple.
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You must make sure you don’t press the CTRL key when you click in the blue waves.
Normal playback (press the SPACE bar) is always forwards (left to right).
Effect > Reverse used once makes the blue waveform start at what was the end of the audio, like as if you looked at the waveform in a mirror. Normal playback then sounds as if it is playing reversed.
Use Effect > Reverse again to undo the first reverse.
