Hi David! mental arithmetic? That went to the junk yard together with my reel to reel tape machine. I was hoping for electronic computing. :-) Well I'll just have to revive some grey cells... More importantly, I do not in fact get a beep with Audacity 2.0.1 and Windows 7 64 bit. I did get a minuscule beep with the previous version. According to the release notes the beep was changed to the "system bell". I take that to mean the Windows notification sound, but this does apparently not work. It seems to be a bug? Thanks a lot for clearing up the SyncLock issue. The manual does mention label tracks but it assumes a certain mental agility to work out that the whole project is affected without them. There's that word again... Cheers, Robbie -----Original Message----- From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Bailes Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:08 PM To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Track/project length, SyncLock and more Hi Robbie, re: sum of length of tracks. I don't know of any automated way of doing this. But you could find out the length of each track by moving the cursor to the end of each track and reading its position, and then add the lengths using either mental arithmetic or a spread sheet. re: sound at the length of longer activities. If I set the option to beep on completion of longer activities in the interface category of preferences, then it doesn't make any sound whatsoever on my computer (audacity 2.0.1, windows 7 64 bit). Do you get a beep, and if so for what activities? re: sync lock. I don't think your understanding of sync lock is correct. Here's another description: For the purposes of sync locking, the tracks in a project are considered to form one or more groups. This grouping is determined by the label tracks in the project. If there are no label tracks, then there's just a single group. If there are label tracks, then if a label track is followed by an audio track, then the label track is the last track in the group, and the audio track is the first track in the next group. A track is sync locked if any of the tracks in its group are selected. Currently there isn't a way of Jaws reading whether a track is sync locked. David. ________________________________ From: Robbie <tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, 25 July 2012, 12:54 Subject: [audacity4blind] Track/project length, SyncLock and more Hi! I have a couple of questions. Is there a way of determining the sum length of all tracks? In other words, how long a project would be if all tracks were aligned end to end. If I understand the SyncLock function correctly, it is supposed to effect only those tracks which are selected when SyncLock is activated. According to the manual those tracks should then display a SyncLock icon. I have two problems here. First, no matter which tracks are selected at the time of activation, SyncLock is applied to all tracks. Second, being blind I can't tell which tracks have the SyncLock icon. Does anyone know of a way to have JAWS announce this? And here's a little item for the whishlist. I would like to be able to choose a sound for the completion of longer activities. What with all the warning and info sounds on a blind user's computer, the system beep just isn't distinctive enough nor loud enough. Many other programs let you select your own sounds for such purposes. Would that be possible for Audacity? Cheers, Robbie 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