Help for Audacity on macOS.
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.
Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity 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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Compositeur
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- Operating System: macOS 10.15 Catalina or later
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by Compositeur » Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:55 pm
I can't seem to find an answer to this, and yet it seems so simple...
How do I set Audacity to play from the point I stopped at, after stopping playback before the sound file has played through to its end?
The handy online manual here:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/nav ... _tips.html
...does not seem to say!
Audacity keeps jumping back to the start of the sound file every time I stop playback mid-file with the space bar.
Stop should mean 'stop', not 'stop and rewind'!
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steve
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by steve » Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:17 pm
Compositeur wrote:How do I set Audacity to play from the point I stopped at
There's a couple of options:
1) Rather than stopping playback with the Stop button or spacebar, use the Pause button or "P" key. Then click the Pause button (or "P" key) again to resume (un-pause)
2) If you really want to
stop, and set the "play from" position to the point where you stopped, press the "X" key (or "Transport menu > Play > Play/Stop and Set Cursor").
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Compositeur
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- Operating System: macOS 10.15 Catalina or later
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by Compositeur » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:36 am
Steve, you're a
star. Thank you so much!
