it starts playing when i add markers

[stevenknowels]

i need to add a lot of markers to a song. im doing that with ctrl and b. every now and then playback starts on its own and i have not pressed space or the play buttin i am just adding markers. if i press space to stop it just adds a space in the marker so i press the stop buttin then i have to delete the last marker and do it again then it will be ok for a bit and then start playing again. this is insain why does it keep playing?
windows 7 with audacity 2.0.6

[steve]

Try resetting the keyboard shortcuts.
To do that, go to "Edit > Preferences > Keyboard" and click on the "Defaults" button, then press "OK".

[stevenknowels]

no thats not it. its still doing it every time i get a bit of spped up. it dosnt do it when i add markers slowly. i never had this problem with the old version.

[steve]

Are you 100% sure that you are not catching the spacebar?
What sort of keyboard do you have?
Are your keyboard or mouse wireless / bluetooth?
Does your computer have any other input devices, such as a track pad, wacom tablet, tracker ball...?
Are you using an ordinary mouse?

[Gale Andrews]

its still doing it every time i get a bit of spped up. it dosnt do it when i add markers slowly. I never had this problem with the old version.

Does the location of the waves change just before it starts playing? The screen shift (not the "starting playing") is a known problem if you type very fast. Bug 452 – Speed typing in a label shifts the screen.

Gale

[stevenknowels]

Does the location of the waves change just before it starts playing?

No it just starts playing.

Are you 100% sure that you are not catching the spacebar?

100%

What sort of keyboard do you have?

just an ordinary usb keyboard

Are your keyboard or mouse wireless / bluetooth?

no

Does your computer have any other input devices, such as a track pad, wacom tablet, tracker ball...?

no

Are you using an ordinary mouse?

yes. its a trust optical wheel mouse.

[steve]

Nothing obvious comes to mind. This does not sound like any known bug.
Let's break this down a bit...
I presume that when you say "markers" you mean "labels" (http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/label_tracks.html)
Are you adding point labels or region labels?
How exactly (click by click) are you setting the position for the new label?

[stevenknowels]

shit man i found it. i was holding onto the ctrl key too long when i made a label and that was makibg it play wehn i clicked to select the next bit. how did i manage to turn that on and how do i turn it off? i don't see it in preferences.

[waxcylinder]

shit man i found it. i was holding onto the ctrl key too long when i made a label and that was makibg it play wehn i clicked to select the next bit. how did i manage to turn that on and how do i turn it off? i don't see it in preferences.

Ctrl+click in the waveform to induce a Quick-Play is a barely advertised "feature" of Audacity - so hard to find and tricky to diagnose what you've done wrong.

So well done you for finding what you'd done there - and thanks for feeding back what happened.

And sorry, no there is no way to turn that off (would that you could).

WC

[Gale Andrews]

shit man i found it. i was holding onto the ctrl key too long when i made a label and that was makibg it play wehn i clicked to select the next bit. how did i manage to turn that on and how do i turn it off? i don't see it in preferences.

Ctrl+click in the waveform to induce a Quick-Play is a barely advertised "feature" of Audacity

It is a feature, but not one that is easy to advertise unless you read the playback sections of the Manual.

I've been calling for it to be "advertised" in the Status Bar for some time. The message could come on if you hold CTRL for more than a couple of seconds. Does someone have a better idea?


Gale