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@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 <mailto: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
