Audacity could be more helpful when paused ...

[Edgar]

It always annoys the hell out of me when it whazzes back

+1

[Gale Andrews]

+1 for it working like my tape deck and my old VCR

Note that I am not suggesting that we change the current default behaviour. I'm agreeing with Gale that it would be useful to have both behaviours (two buttons); "Stop Here" (stop and set cursor) and "Stop and Rewind" (the current Stop button).

Bit late to change now. Most of the time I prefer set back to start point. Old tape decks are synonymous with nasty things like punch-in, right?

On first thought I like the idea of alternative Transport Toolbars. Which would be the default?

That depends if we want some radical alternative behaviour like Wavosaur's (or something else) for one of the sets. I would prefer the default to have both Stop buttons if the developers can be persuaded to add the new Stop button. The second set could have only one Stop button that does Stop and Set Cursor (or one that does as now).

Also some people want a separate Loop Play button or a way to make the Play button do loop without SHIFT (SHIFT would do standard play).

I could see it being either the same yellow rectangle as now containing a black (?) downward-pointing arrow.
In that case, perhaps the current Stop would have a black (single) left-pointing arrow.

How about a chevron rather than an arrow?

I thought that may look too much like Skip to Start.


Gale