cannot select with audacity

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lissu
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cannot select with audacity

Post by lissu » Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:54 pm

i have managed to do something to my copy of audacity. When I attempt to select a portion of a waveform the vertical selection line jumps to the nearest second. IOW, I cannot select anything between seconds (1,2,3,etc). I would appreciate it if someone would tell me how to reset audacity so the selection vertical bar moves slowly and stops anywhere within the displayed waveform. Thank You.

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Re: cannot select with audacity

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:06 pm

lissu wrote:i have managed to do something to my copy of audacity. When I attempt to select a portion of a waveform the vertical selection line jumps to the nearest second. IOW, I cannot select anything between seconds (1,2,3,etc). I would appreciate it if someone would tell me how to reset audacity so the selection vertical bar moves slowly and stops anywhere within the displayed waveform. Thank You.
See http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Editing#snap .

This is a common problem but we are puzzled how so many users accidentally come to put a check in the Snap To checkbox.


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