[audacity4blind] Re: Inserting Audio within an Existing Track
- From: Eric Lueck <echodash19@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:53:30 -0800
I'd have to agree, I still can't find any answers for my problem with
timing. Shame, it's the only feature that doesn't quite seem to work
with accessibility in mind.
On 11/12/14, Rich De Steno <ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi David, I almost never use control-a, but in order to get to a
> specific point in a long file for the insertion I am referring to, I
> press the left bracket to bring up the time spin boxes, specify the
> minutes and seconds, tab over to OK, and find my exact entry point from
> there. Could this be a problem when I then paste in the file to be
> inserted? If I press the home key to deselect any audio as you suggest,
> I still need to find my entry point without listening to or
> right-arrowing through the entire long file.
>
> Rich De Steno
>
> On 11/12/2014 9:58 AM, David Bailes wrote:
>> Hi Rich,
>> one possibility for the behaviour which you describe, is that before using
>> the left bracket, you've pressed ctrl+a to select everything. Pressing
>> ctrl+a selected all the tracks and selects a time range which covers all
>> the audio. If you press left bracket during playback when there's a time
>> range already selected, this changes the position of the start of the time
>> range, and leaves the end of the time range unchanged.
>> If this has been the problem, then either:
>> 1. after pressing ctrl+a, press home to deslect any time range and move
>> the cursor to time zero.
>> 2. Instead of use ctrl+a, either use enter to toggle the selectedness of
>> tracks, or press ctrl+shift+k to select all tracks (without affecting
>> whether a time range is selected).
>>
>> If this wasn't the problem, could you give a detailed list of actions that
>> you're doing?
>>
>> David.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 13:32, Rich De Steno
>> <ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I know this subject has come up before on this list, but I still cannot
>> get it right. When I want to insert a piece of audio or a track within
>> an existing track, I place a left square bracket at the entry point in
>> the existing track and press control-v for pasting. However, this always
>> overwrites the prior audio after the left bracket, rather than pushing
>> it back. I get around this by braking up the sections into separate
>> tracks and using the connect tracks option in the tracks menu, but that
>> involves more work. How do you paste audio within an existing track
>> without overwriting?
>>
>
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