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I'm very new to Audacity. Currently using 2.0.3. I've imported several sound clips into a single track on Audacity. There is a bit of space between each clip. I would like to be able to toggle forward through the various clips. They are for a stage production and I want to be able to start the audio without having to look down at the computer too much. I have the various clips labeled, but I can't figure out if there is a way to launch a clip, let it play, stop with the space bar, and then jump to the next clip. Is that possible?

I've attached a screen shot of my project so you can see what's going on.

Thanks!

The labels are sticky as you no doubt figured out by now. Theatrical cuing came up before and I don't remember what we did. Searching.

Koz

Managing label wiki goes for pages, but jumping to the sound selection does not. Still searching. Koz

No, can't find it. We'll need to wait for one of the other elves. Koz

Thanks for trying:)

Click in the text of the first label. Hit the Play button then Stop button to Stop if needed. Or hit ENTER on the keyboard to close the label edit, then SPACE to play the labelled audio. Hit SPACE again if you want to stop playing.

If you used Play and Stop, just hit TAB on the keyboard to move to the next label, then Play and Stop buttons again. Repeat the steps to work through the labels.

If you used ENTER and SPACE, hit TAB twice to move into the second label. ENTER then SPACE again. Now TAB three times to the third label and so on. Unfortunately TAB (or some shortcut) really ought to move forward from the current or nearest label when the label is closed for editing, but it doesn't.

If you want to cycle backwards through the labels, SHIFT + TAB.

TAB or SHIFT + TAB to navigate the labels only work when the yellow focus border is in the label track. If the focus border is not there, use UP or DOWN arrow on the keyboard to move focus into the label track.


Gale

Unfortunately TAB (or some shortcut) really ought to move forward from the current or nearest label when the label is closed for editing, but it doesn't.

Actually, nobody cares about the labels. The request is one key click to move to the next sound selection. The labels happen to be almost semi-convenient.

Is anything like that posted in Feature Requests? I know this has come up before and under similar circumstances.

Koz

Thanks for your reply Gale. I discovered the TAB feature when I did some preliminary searches, but as Koz pointed out, I'm mostly concerned with playing each sound clip. I know you can use "J" to go back to the beginning of a track and "K" to jump to the end. I'm hoping there's a way to jump from one clip to the next (i.e. skipping the silences, which are just there to give me time to stop the track).

I may end up just loading the tracks into Ableton and running it through that.

Anyway, thanks for taking time to respond!

I wonder if chains can do this. Snap to the next label. Stop and wait.
Koz

Combination of "Find Silence" and Chains? Koz