Navigate Audacity Playback
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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shocked123
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Navigate Audacity Playback
How can you skip around on Audacity playback like you can on Microsoft Windows Media Player playback?
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kozikowski
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Re: Navigate Audacity Playback
Audacity will play from wherever you click on the time ruler over the blue waves.
Audacity won't "scrub" if that's what you mean. You can't whip the cursor back and forth at random and have the playback follow you.
That and the zoom and navigation tools are as good as it gets. These are the tools I use. Add SpaceBar Play to the list.
Zoom (Windows)
-- Drag-select something on the timeline and zoom into it. Control-E
-- Zoom out a little bit. Control-3
-- Zoom out full. Control-F
-- Shift-ScrollWheel will shift the timeline view left and right (sooner and later).
Change the timeline so it doesn't shift by itself:
-- Edit > Preferences > Tracks > [_] Update display while playing. (de-select)
......Note: Update Display is good during recording.
Koz
Audacity won't "scrub" if that's what you mean. You can't whip the cursor back and forth at random and have the playback follow you.
That and the zoom and navigation tools are as good as it gets. These are the tools I use. Add SpaceBar Play to the list.
Zoom (Windows)
-- Drag-select something on the timeline and zoom into it. Control-E
-- Zoom out a little bit. Control-3
-- Zoom out full. Control-F
-- Shift-ScrollWheel will shift the timeline view left and right (sooner and later).
Change the timeline so it doesn't shift by itself:
-- Edit > Preferences > Tracks > [_] Update display while playing. (de-select)
......Note: Update Display is good during recording.
Koz
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Gale Andrews
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Re: Navigate Audacity Playback
As you know, Audacity 2.1.1 and later has a (somewhat unintuitive) Scrubbing and Seeking feature initiated by CTRL-clicking in the waveform.kozikowski wrote:Audacity won't "scrub" if that's what you mean. You can't whip the cursor back and forth at random and have the playback follow you.
Gale
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