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I have 2 tracks, 1st one is muted. If both are selected, Cut Preview is muted for both tracks and the Play button stays pushed after the silent playback.

Also, occasionally when I hit 'c' to preview a cut, a label is created for the selected range and the 'c' is inserted as text. This is persistent when it's happening, but I haven't yet identified the conditions that produce it. It might involve having the label track included in the selection, but when I deselected the label track it didn't correct the problem.

DickN wrote:I have 2 tracks, 1st one is muted. If both are selected, Cut Preview is muted for both tracks and the Play button stays pushed after the silent playback.

Thanks. This is already listed as Bug 231. Only the top track plays (or doesn't play if muted) and otherwise mute/solo state isn't respected.

DickN wrote:Also, occasionally when I hit 'c' to preview a cut, a label is created for the selected range and the 'c' is inserted as text. This is persistent when it's happening, but I haven't yet identified the conditions that produce it. It might involve having the label track included in the selection, but when I deselected the label track it didn't correct the problem.

If you have the label track focused with the yellow border (selected or not) a label will be produced with cut preview. That's expected and is one of the issues that you get if you allow a label to be created in a focused label track just by typing (rather than having to use the Add Label at Selection shortcut first of all).

I can't at the moment get it to produce a label after typing "C" unless the label track has focus.




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Regarding the problem with creating spurious labels with keypresses which should launch events instead, I have a horrible problem with this about the only keypress that "usually" DOES NOT cause this problem is the spacebar (but even occasionally it happens too). I finally went through the entire keyboard preferences and removed all single key shortcuts (with the exception of Play) – for almost all of them I was able to make them ctrl+<KEY>. I realize that this is a non-optimal solution for most users.

Edgar wrote:about the only keypress that "usually" DOES NOT cause this problem is the spacebar (but even occasionally it happens too).

P (or some other customised single key shortcut for Pause) also does not cause the problem if the track is playing or recording.


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