Hi Keith,
It depends what you are doing as to whether it's most efficient for the
edit cursor to follow the playback cursor. See for example this discussion
for the pro tools editor:
https://ask.audio/articles/pro-tools-tip-understanding-the-different-playhead-and-selection-behaviors
There are times when you want to listen to the same audio a number of
times, either to make sure it really does sound ok, or after making some
change. Having a preference to tie the edit cursor with the playback cursor
might be an enhancement that is considered in the future, but be warned
that there are only a small number of developers working on Audacity.
In Audacity in 2.1.3, when you want to stop, you have a choice whether the
edit cursor is moved to the playback position: pressing spacebar does not
change the position of the edit cursor, whilst pressing the letter x does
update the position of the edit cursor to where you stopped.
When you press p to pause the position of the edit cursor is unchanged.
However if you then want to move the edit cursor to that position, you can
either press left bracket, which moves the cursor and leaves playback
paused, or press the letter x which moves the cursor and stops playback.
David.
On 25 August 2017 at 16:55, Keith Heltsley <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What are the advantages of not having the cursor track the playback
location?
For the sake of newbies who could use some training wheels, might it be
possible to have a setting in Preferences to opt for playback tracking?
To restate my first question… Why would tracking the playback location of
the cursor be a bad thing?
Trying to keep track of the cursor has been my biggest reason for not
using Audacity much. Until recently, when I was forced to use it, due to
not having software for the Mac that I typically have used on my Windows
machines for years. .
Keith Heltsley
keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On Aug 24, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Bonita Blankenberg <bonitabonster@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Wow, that’s exactly the problem I’ve been grappling with. Could not for
the life of me understand why I could not just pause and edit something,
not realizing that the cursor is miles away from where I want it.
Makes me feel so much better, I am no techno smarty, so I really thought
I’m missing something. Your description made it much more understandable.
Thanks Marlon,
Bonita
PS, I’d like to say I live up to my name, but that would sound vane, ☺
B
*From:* Marlon Brandão de Sousa [mailto:splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx
<splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]
*Sent:* Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:06 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Bonita Blankenberg; 'David Bailes'
*Subject:* Re: [audacity4blind] Re: Clips etc
Sorry for the incorrect shift before x I should have tested. Coming from
Mac OS where audacity is not updated (at least the accessible copy) I used
shift + a and now it is only x.
One of the things I had more difficulty in understanding the way Audacity
works is to separate selection boundaries of the cursor.
Folks,
Please do warn me if I am wrong.
The cursor is not selection dependent. The cursor is not track dependent.
The cursor is a feature that may be anywhere between the absolute time
range 0 to the last millisecond of the last track of the whole project.
Setting the selection, (specifying a start and an end boundaries of a
piece of audio that might comprise more than one track) as far as I know,
does not affect the cursor.
Also, at least as far as I could verify, the cursor is not affected by the
play activity, meaning that you can be listening to a part of the audio and
the cursor might be in a completely different spot. This is not the way
newbies like me will imagine that because we do make a relation with a text
editor where the cursor usually follows the text being read by the screen
reader.
This is why when you pause with p and try to make operations related to
the cursor you might end up messing stuff ... because the fact you have
paused the audio does not mean that the cursor is where you are listening.
In fact, what x does as far as I know is perform a pause and automatically
put the cursor where you are listening.
Now as why this is not the default behavior I do not know ** note that
this is not a criticism but ratter something I have been curious about as
why someone would want the cursor in any point different than the place
they are listening at the moment.
But anyways understanding these concepts that by the way I have not read
anywhere, specially the fact that the cursor does not track what you are
listening has helped me a lot on my still beginning work with audacity.
btw and slightly off-topic your name Bonita means beautiful woman in
Portuguese, my native thong ... this is facinating .. I know many cases of
names in a given idiom meaning words in others.
Thanks,
Marlon
On 24/08/2017 05:31, Bonita Blankenberg wrote:
Gentlemen
Let it be known!
You are my heroes! It works, eureke, it works! The X is my new best
friend, thank you Marlon!
Have a lovely day,
Bonita
*From:* audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@
freelists.org <audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] *On Behalf Of *Marlon
Brandão de Sousa
*Sent:* Thursday, August 24, 2017 4:19 AM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; David Bailes
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Re: Clips etc
In this task X (shift + x) is your friend. It will place the cursor right
where you are listening and also will pause the sound.
In previous versions of audacity it was shift + a,
On 23/08/2017 07:10, David Bailes wrote:
Hi Bonita,
you should be able to move the cursor to wherever you want to insert the
audio, and then paste it there. Where are you wanting to insert some audio,
and are not able to do so?
David.
On 22 August 2017 at 17:46, Bonita Blankenberg <bonitabonster@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello Listers
I do hope my mail finds you all well.
My apologies if I’m asking a question that has already been covered, I’m a
newby user of Audacity.
My question is, how can I insert clips into a project without having to
move to the end of the track? At the moment, I can only add things to an
existing project, if I move my curser to the end of the track and then
paste something.
Hope my question make sense.
I’m using Audacity with NVDA.
Your help will be valued.
Bonita
