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Audacity: Navigate and loop playback on the timeline

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Demo summary

This clip demonstrates zooming with the mouse wheel, using the spacebar for playback, and dragging on the timeline to define a loop region.

Step-by-step

  1. Hold the CTRL key and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out around the cursor
  2. Press the spacebar or use the player controls to play the timeline
  3. Press P to pause and resume playback
  4. Right-click the time display or timeline to switch the format from seconds to bars
  5. Click and drag on the timeline to define a specific region
  6. Toggle the loop on or off using the Enable looping button

Options

  • Switch time format from seconds to bars
  • Use the spacebar or the player UI for playback

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  5. 5:160:20Repair waveforms with the Draw toolThe demonstration shows how to zoom into individual audio samples and use the Draw tool to manually reshape the waveform to remove clicks.AudacityAI Audio Editor
  6. 5:360:39Manage track controls and Spectrogram viewThe narrator demonstrates using track-level controls for Mute, Solo, Gain, and Panning, as well as switching to the Spectrogram view.AudacityAI Audio Editor
  7. 6:150:57Apply real-time effects in AudacityThe demo shows how to use the Effects button to add real-time plugins, toggle them on/off, and reorder them in the effect chain.AudacityAI Audio Editor
  8. 7:570:32Save and export audio filesThe narrator demonstrates saving a project as an .aup3 file and exporting the final audio into formats like MP3 or WAV.AudacityAI Audio Editor
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  5. 30:050:21Drag and move tracksShows how to grab the gray label area of a track to move it horizontally along the timeline.Dewi Jenkins
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