Does Audacity have a slider-bar ?

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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?)

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Rod wrote:
> wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com (wylbur37) wrote in
> news:8028c236.0409250112.33782af0@posting.google.com:
>
>
>>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

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Rod <reply@group.please> wrote in message news:<2rksgdF1aoot8U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> > 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.

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"Rod" <reply@group.please> wrote in message
news:2rnlj6F1cgq2dU1@uni-berlin.de...
> wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com (wylbur37) wrote in
> news:8028c236.0409260221.1dbeae4@posting.google.com:
>
> > Rod <reply@group.please> wrote in message
> > news:<2rksgdF1aoot8U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> >> > 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.

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wylbur37 wrote:
> Phil Nelson <pCUT_THiS_TEXTdn@soAND_THiS_TEXTnic.net> wrote in message news:<HQh5d.15099$54.228692@typhoon.sonic.net>...
>
>>>>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