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Can't seem to find a solution to this problem, though it's a pet peeve of mine. I have about 8 stereo tracks in a song I'm doing so I selected fit vertically but then I wanted to go back to full size on some to adjust gain on one, and unmute. Unfortunately Audacity has hidden everything except telling me that they are stereo and 24 bit. There doesn't seem to be any way I can drag them back to a large size, no cursor appears to enable this. I didn't read the audacity manual cover to cover but couldn't find anything where I might expect to find it.
Help greatly appreciated. safemouse

At the bottom of the (now shrunken) Track Control Panel at the left of the track you should see a little-downward-pointing-grey-triangle - just click on te to expand the track.

WC

You should be able to "grab" the bottom edge of a track (yellow border?) and pull down to increase it's size on the screen. On a multi-channel presentation, you can pull up or down and always go back to "normal" with the View > Fit commands.

There doesn't seem to be a way to select one track and have it fill the screen with a shortcut keystroke.

I can ask about that.

Koz

kozikowski wrote:There doesn't seem to be a way to select one track and have it fill the screen with a shortcut keystroke.

There is a Pending Feature Request that I transfrerred to the Audacity Wiki earlier this month for exactly that:

Keyboard short-cut for expanding tracks at max.: When creating new tracks, the new tracks created are in small sizes(vertically). I would like to expand them individually to the maximum available client-space in the window. Unfortunately, I haven't found any keyboard short-cut for that; doing it manually(hoovering the mouse over the track separator while the arrow icon is present and drag to the bottom) is time consuming.

ED: This would also help me from time to time so, just tossing out some thoughts here... The idea seems to be a function (which may have a menu entry and will have keyboard shortcut) which will take (all??*) the current tracks (in a single project window--not all open projects) make them the same size**; such size will be sufficient to completely fill the available space in the project window. What happens when there are Label, Timeline, MIDI etc. tracks? should only audio (waveform) track be expanded? Maybe tracks should expand proportionally so that if we have 100 vertical units available overall and before action we have three tracks -- all audio: 5 tall, 10 tall & 20 tall non-proportional they would all end up 33 tall proportional they would end up 14 tall, 28 tall & 56 (note due to rounding we only use 98 or 99 of the available px--the real code could fudge for this if desired).

OP: I think what you are referring to(Adjust tracks in equal sizes to fit in window) is done with: ctrl+shift+f

Steve: So what you want is a modified version of what Ctrl+Shift+F does? Rather than fitting all the tracks to the track panel size you would like to fit each of the tracks to the track panel size?

ED: I think I misunderstood the OP's request (I was thrown off by "tracks"--plural in the title)--to restate: Given any selected track (track having focus) an action which causes that track (and that track only) to expand vertically to fill the entire available space (given the Project window's current size). This will cause all other tracks to be out-of-view but available via the vertical scroll bar.

WC: ok gasto, I just had a look at your YT video - and this raises a question. Why exactly do you feel the need to fill the whole screen real estate with a sing track? Is is because you are seeking better control over your signal level? If that is the case then you should make sure that you make the meter toolbar as wide as it can be (I and many others stretch it across the whole Audacity window width)- you can do this by clicking and dragging on the toolbar and in 1.3.x Audacity will remember you previous setting. IMHO the default sizing for the meters is so ridiculously small, making them effectively unusable. Personally I would prefer the default to be full window width.

Hey, thanks so much for the replies. Got in working now. safemouse