Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

I'm currently running Audacity version 1.2.1 and I haven't been able
to find any such slider bar.

Can someone describe how to find it (if there is one)?

(If you're playing a one-hour sound file and you want to skip
to the 30-minute position, how are you supposed to get there?)

(wylbur37) wrote in
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Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

I'm currently running Audacity version 1.2.1 and I haven't been able
to find any such slider bar.

Can someone describe how to find it (if there is one)?

(If you're playing a one-hour sound file and you want to skip
to the 30-minute position, how are you supposed to get there?)


Using v 1.2.2 here (latest stable version), slider is at the bottom of the
screen, looks just like a normal window-slider. No settings changed, it had
always been there. Can't say I remember it being not there on previous
versions.

Rod

Rod wrote:
(wylbur37) wrote in
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Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

I'm currently running Audacity version 1.2.1 and I haven't been able
to find any such slider bar.

Can someone describe how to find it (if there is one)?

(If you're playing a one-hour sound file and you want to skip
to the 30-minute position, how are you supposed to get there?)



Using v 1.2.2 here (latest stable version), slider is at the bottom of the
screen, looks just like a normal window-slider. No settings changed, it had
always been there. Can't say I remember it being not there on previous
versions.

Rod

Select the (default) cursor mode (the vertical bar among the buttons in
the upper left corner), left-click in the waveform view at the time you
want to start from, then press "play".

--
Phil

Phil Nelson wrote in message ...
Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

(If you're playing a one-hour sound file and you want to skip
to the 30-minute position, how are you supposed to get there?)

Select the (default) cursor mode (the vertical bar among the buttons in
the upper left corner), left-click in the waveform view at the time you
want to start from, then press "play".

That only works when the player is stopped.
If I'm playing a recording of a radio talk show, for example, and I
miss what someone just said and I want to replay the previous ten
seconds, I would have to first hit the STOP button, then click on a
spot to the left of the current cursor position, then click on PLAY
again. That's a nuisance.
I'd rather just click on any spot to the left (or the right) without
having to bother with STOP and PLAY. (That's how most other sound
players/editors work).

Rod wrote in message ...
Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

I'm currently running Audacity version 1.2.1 and I haven't been able
to find any such slider bar.

Using v 1.2.2 here (latest stable version), slider is at the bottom of the
screen, looks just like a normal window-slider. No settings changed, it had
always been there. Can't say I remember it being not there on previous
versions.

That only scrolls the *view* of the wave display.
It doesn't move the position of the cursor *within* the sound file.

(wylbur37) wrote in
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Rod wrote in message
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Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

I'm currently running Audacity version 1.2.1 and I haven't been
able to find any such slider bar.

Using v 1.2.2 here (latest stable version), slider is at the bottom
of the screen, looks just like a normal window-slider. No settings
changed, it had always been there. Can't say I remember it being not
there on previous versions.

That only scrolls the *view* of the wave display.
It doesn't move the position of the cursor *within* the sound file.


Yes, so I noticed, I know understand you want to jump back while playing
the file. I can't see how this can be done.

Rod

"Rod" wrote in message
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(wylbur37) wrote in
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Rod wrote in message
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Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

I'm currently running Audacity version 1.2.1 and I haven't been
able to find any such slider bar.

Using v 1.2.2 here (latest stable version), slider is at the bottom
of the screen, looks just like a normal window-slider. No settings
changed, it had always been there. Can't say I remember it being
not
there on previous versions.

That only scrolls the *view* of the wave display.
It doesn't move the position of the cursor *within* the sound file.


Yes, so I noticed, I know understand you want to jump back while
playing
the file. I can't see how this can be done.


Yeah, that would be one of my only complaints with this great program.

"Mister Charlie" wrote ...
Yeah, that would be one of my only complaints with this great program.

So it is open-source. Why doesn't someone add this feature?

wylbur37 wrote:
Phil Nelson wrote in message ...

Most audio players/recorders have a slider bar where you can
click on it and drag it left or right to jump to any spot
on the sound file.

(If you're playing a one-hour sound file and you want to skip
to the 30-minute position, how are you supposed to get there?)

Select the (default) cursor mode (the vertical bar among the buttons in
the upper left corner), left-click in the waveform view at the time you
want to start from, then press "play".


That only works when the player is stopped.
If I'm playing a recording of a radio talk show, for example, and I
miss what someone just said and I want to replay the previous ten
seconds, I would have to first hit the STOP button, then click on a
spot to the left of the current cursor position, then click on PLAY
again. That's a nuisance.

IIRC, you can relocate the cursor during playback, but you do still
have to stop and start to play from the current position. I guess it's
not perfect, but for me, not a big problem.

I'd rather just click on any spot to the left (or the right) without
having to bother with STOP and PLAY. (That's how most other sound
players/editors work).

I think you might be looking for a feature called "scrub" and I guess
it's not in Audacity, yet. Maybe you would like to help them code it?

BTW, I use XMMS for listening, and do just what you describe in XMMS.
Sometimes I have problem locating just the right spot because I can't
zoom in and place the cursor accurately the way I can in Audacity.

--
Phil Nelson