If I have two clips on a single track, separated by an empty area (i.e. not containing any audio), is there a way to play the two clips but skip over the empty area?
I’ve tried using Cut Preview but this only seems to work for individual clips.
Hmmm…this doesn’t seem to be working properly. I created two five-second noise clips separated by one second of nothing. I’ve got Cut Preview set to two seconds pre and post the edit. If I select the empty section of the track the pre section plays properly, and the cursor skips the empty section, however it doesn’t start playing the post section. Instead it only plays the last second of the audio.
Have I done something wrong here or is this a bug?
What sort of Mac are you on?
Which version of OS X?
Which (exact) version of Audacity (look in “Audacity > About Audacity” for the full version number).
I did what you did and mine plays two to seven, skip four through five. Attach 1.
Then I expanded the gap to two seconds. The new one plays two through eight, skip four through six. Attach 2.
Are you using the “C” shortcut key to play?
If you don’t split or shift, just create eight seconds of noise, does that play beginning to end?
Are you using 44100, 32-floating for the digital standard (left of the track).
Does it still do that if you restart the machine and start with fresh everything?
It’s not likely to be that, but it’s not that unusual for a machine restart to cure a “magic” performance issue. It’s the go-to suggestion when the poster presents a problem that doesn’t fall into other, more common possibilities.