Audacity Forum

Thanks, WC.

I have a feeling the Wiki article has not quite grasped the simple desire for scrubbing or jogging. As an old analogue engineer you get used to listening to audio with your ears, not your eyes via a waveform. Scrubbing or jogging was simple taking both the left and right hand spools from your tape deck and manually running the tape past the play head to determine a point to place a chinagraph mark and make your subsequent edit. Obviously, your own hand movement controlled the speed and really effective edits could be made. All I (and seemingly, many others) are asking for is the opportunity for some functionality that emulates this. Ideally, you would also have this talking to, say the Mackie Control, which has a jog/scrub wheel as part of its hardware. I truely believe that these two additions would make Audacity a hugely powerful editor. Sometimes, I can't see why people find the concept so difficult.

<<<I can't see why people find the concept so difficult.>>>

I can. It involves being able to set an edit point by playing the show backwards at the wrong speed. Can your mom do that? I can. Turns out only the old tape editors can do that and we're dying off at an accelerated pace. All the developers need to do is wait us out.

Koz

Transcriber wrote:

And with regard to "scrubbing", I'm not sure if this would accoumplish what you want, but you can select some portion of a track, then hit the space-bar, and it will just play that selected portion of the track.

HTH,
TSC

If that DOES work for scrubbing, then cool!!!