Hi Dave, this is in reply to getting the length of the track, and selecting a time range using [ and ] during playback. Finding the length of the audio in a track. If you move the cursor to the end of the track, you can then read the cursor position, which will give you the length of the track. 1. If there's only a single track, then press end to move to the end of all the audio. 2. If there's more than one track, select the track that you're interested in, and make sure the other tracks are unselected. Then press k to move to the end of the audio in the selected tracks. 3. One way of reading the cursor position is to move to the selection bar by pressing ctrl+f6, and then tabbing to the selection start control. If no time range is selected, then the value of the selection start control is the cursor position. Press ctrl +f6 twice to return to the track table. Another way of reading the cursor position is to press [. When there's no playback, this opens a selection start dialog, which contains the cursor position. Note that if you're using Jaws, the Jaws misreads this and says time zero. However, if you tab round the dialog and back to the cursor position, it reads the correct time. To select a time range during playback, you can simply press [ to mark the start of the selection, ] to mark the end of the selection and spacebar to stop. You don't have to pause at any point. However, the advantage of pausing before pressing [ or ] is that you can easily hear where you've paused, and also if it isn't quite where you wanted, you can unpause and try again, if necessary using left arrow and right arrow to seek backwards and forwards. David. ________________________________ From: Dave Van Der Molen <dvm975@xxxxxxxxx> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, 29 April 2012, 14:41 Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Increasing Playback Speed While Keeping Pitch Normal Hi Listers. Thanks Anders for your response. I have three other questions. What is the best way to figure out the length of an Audacity project. I've made a single-track recording, and I want to know how long it is. My last two questions have to do with editing. What I do is, as I'm listening and discover a portion I want to delete, I press p, then left bracket, then space, space, then I hit p again where I want the selection of text to end. Then I hit right bracket, space, and control-k. I'm not really interested in selecting time ranges, but is there another way, using less keystrokes, to do what I've described above? Also, I'm having trouble deleting the last few seconds of my recording. What is the quickest way to delete from where I pause to the end of the project? Thanks! Dave ----- Original Message ----- >From: Anders Holmberg >To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:56 PM >Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Increasing Playback Speed While Keeping Pitch >Normal > >Hello! >Yes you can do that. >Go to the effects menu and select change tempo. >WHen selecting this option you will be in a dialog where you can do what you want. >If you have more questions please write and i am willing o help if i can. >/A > >Dave Van Der Molen skrev 2012-04-28 22:05: >I'm using Audacity 2.0 with Windows XP Pro. >> >>Does anyone know if there's a way to increase the playback speed of a project, while keeping the pitch at normal? I've set up hotkeys to allow for quicker or slower playback, but the pitch of my voice also gets adjusted, which I don't want. >> >>Another thing I'm wondering is how can I increase the speed of a recording and have that speed increase saved so that when it's converted to an MP3, the listener will hear it at the faster speed. >> >>Thanks! >> >>Dave >> >>The audacity4blind web site is at >>//www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind >> >>Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, >>Audacity keyboard commands, and more... >> >>To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to >>audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>with subject line >>unsubscribe >> >> >> The audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe