Control Play Properties

Location: Play tab in Options | Control Properties or (Properties) button on window

Use the Control Play Properties to configure the three play buttons and set the speed of the fast forward and rewind buttons.

Play buttons
All Plays entire sound.

Selection Plays region between start and finish markers. See .

Unselected Plays regions outside the start and finish markers. This lets you quickly test how a cut or delete will sound without actually changing the sound. When possible, playback is confined to the region shown in the graph so that the entire file does not have to be played.

Cursor Continues playback from the current cursor's position and stops at the finish marker. If the cursor is past the finish marker, playback begins at the start marker.

Cursor to end Continues playback from the current cursor's position and stops at the end of the file.

View Plays the part of the sound currently shown in the graph.

View to end Start playback at the left side of the graph and continues playback to the end of the sound.

Finish Plays three seconds just before the finish marker, so you can determine if the marker is in the right place without listening to the entire selection. Note you can right-click on the graph and choose the Play From Here command.

Intro/loop/end This is a special playback feature that plays the sound in three sections. The beginning of the sound, to the right of the start marker, is played first. Then the selection is played and looped. Finally the end of the sound, to the left of the finish marker, is played. Be sure to check the Loop box below to enable looping. This is useful for musical accompaniment, looped instrument samples, or testing loop points.

Loop point Starts playback just before the finish marker and loops back to the start marker and continues playing briefly. Use this setting to test the current selection markers for smooth loop points.

Loop Specifies the number of times playback should be repeated. A value of 1 loops playback once, so the region is played twice. A zero value loops forever. Check or uncheck the box to enable or disable looping.

Fast/Rewind speed
Configures the speed of the fast forward and rewind buttons. By entering a value of 3.00 for Rewind speed, for example, the rewind button will play the sound backwards three times faster than regular playback speed. By entering small numbers (such as 0.1) the rewind and fast forward buttons will play slowly. This is useful for finding pops or clicks, since the visuals will move slowly through the data.
Marker preview (scrubbing) plays a very short section of audio whenever an edit marker is moved with the arrow keys. The value specifies the amount of time to play just after the start marker or just before the finish marker. Set the time to 0 to disable previewing.

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