Search Audacity Recording

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I have Audacity 2.3.2. and Windows 10. How do I search an Audacity recording? With WMP and .wav you can place the cursor anywhere and the WMP will play anywhere you place the cursor. How can I get Audacity to do something similar? Thank you.

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Three ways - pick the one that suits your need:

  1. Click on the track and press “Play” (or press “spacebar”).
  2. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/timeline.html#tqp
  3. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/scrubbing_and_seeking.html
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Audacity has a spectrogram view option.

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That can be useful when searching for, say, speech within a recording, as that has a distinctive pattern.