Audacity Forum

alexius wrote:It should work like this.

It does work like this:

Click (nothing selected) -> shift-click: all samples between click and shift-click are selected.

Double click on an audio clip - the audio clip is selected.

Click and drag along one or more tracks, the region spanned by the drag is selected.

Click on a label text box - the labelled region in the track that has focus is selected.

Click near the end of a selection and drag - the selection can be adjusted.

Shift + click. If there is a selection the end closest to the click position will move to the click position. If there is not a selection then a selection will be made between the playback cursor position and the click position.

Selections can also be adjusted via the keyboard or using the Selection Toolbar.

For further information see here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Audacity_Selection

steve wrote:

alexius wrote:It should work like this.

It does work like this

I'm very sorry, but I don't understand your reply. You're either describing how Audacity does work -- which we already know; or you're telling me that your copy of Audacity already works the way I think it should work -- in which case you must be using a very different Audacity.

steve wrote:For further information see here:

Thank you. I do appreciate your RTFMing me again. But I wish you appreciated my saying that I did RTFM before posting.

I tried my best to explain what I see to be the problem; but it's obvious I failed miserably. It's time to leave the task to someone with abilities superior to mine.

alexius wrote:Let's be clear about this. I'm talking about a version which is 10 years old. SS 2 is plain 2-channel single track; it does not do multi-track nor a lot of other things (eg, VST). I'm not saying it is more powerful than Audacity. But I am saying that it does selecting and marking quite a bit better than Audacity.

And I would suggest that is at least partly because SS is simpler/less powerful in the first place.

alexius wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:I suppose it's OK if it extends the selection in both directions if necessary to fill all the clips (you didn't make it clear if that is what you meant).

It should work like this.

1 Click (nothing selected) -> shift-click: all samples between click and shift-click are selected.

2 Double-click (clip defined by the first marker to the left of the location and the first marker to the right of the location is selected) -> shift-click: all samples between the selected clip and shift-click are selected.

3 Double-click (as above) -> shift-double-click: selection is extended from the selected clip to the current clip (ie, the clip within which the shift-double-click was made), inclusive. It doesn't matter if no marker has been inserted, because, for this purpose, a track always has two markers, start and end, so the principle is the same.

I think Steve was pointing out that 1) and 2) happen now. 3) doesn't happen now - thanks for confirming. And do you agree that with a selection inside a clip but not filling it, that SHIFT + double-click in the clip containing the selection selects all the clip, and that SHIFT + double-click in a clip outside the one containing the selection selects all audio in both clips and in any clips between them?


Gale