Audacity Forum

out of curiosity, why would anyone ever Play-at-speed at 1x?

Isn't that what the play button is for?

Maybe there's a reason to Play-at-speed at 1x that i'm not seeing.

But, Audacity already remembers the position of the volume bar when you close Audacity. So remembering the Play-at-speed would be cool.

or just putting the line in the .cfg file would be good enough for me.

boonman wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:35 am

Maybe there's a reason to Play-at-speed at 1x that i'm not seeing.

Like my "driving" analogy, no-one drives a car in neutral, but when you first get into a car to drive it, you may want to go forward, or may want reverse. Similarly, when I launch Audacity, I probably won't remember what speed I used yesterday, or last week, or whenever I last used Play at Speed, but if I want to play faster, I just need to move the slider to the right, or to the left for slower.

Personally I don't find it a big deal either way, though I can't imagine wanting to listen to an audiobook being read by a chipmunk.