Showing only ONE Waveform/auto-close previous?

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Showing only ONE Waveform/auto-close previous?

Post by pstein » Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:13 am

Assume I drag one *.mp3 onto Audacity then a wavform is shown. Fine.

Now I drag a second *.mp3 onto Audacity then the existing Waveform is shrinked by 50% so that a second Waveform fits into the window too.

How can I tell Audacity to automatically close an existing Waveform when another, new *.mp3 is dragged onto Audacity?

Only ONE Waveform should be displayed at a time.

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Re: Showing only ONE Waveform/auto-close previous?

Post by Gale Andrews » Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:40 am

pstein wrote:Assume I drag one *.mp3 onto Audacity then a wavform is shown. Fine.

Now I drag a second *.mp3 onto Audacity then the existing Waveform is shrinked by 50% so that a second Waveform fits into the window too.
Presumably this is because you turned on "Automatically fit tracks vertically zoomed" in the Tracks Preferences, which you asked about here http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=64341 .
pstein wrote:How can I tell Audacity to automatically close an existing Waveform when another, new *.mp3 is dragged onto Audacity?
You cannot. But you can use File > Open instead of dragging the file in, or right-click the file in Explorer > Open with, either of which opens that file in a new, empty project window.



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