Hi Rich, if you press left bracket during playback, then the cursor is moved to that position. In the rare case where there's already a time range selected, then selection start is moved to that position. David. On Friday, 9 May 2014, 14:14, Rich De Steno <ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Good to know this, but what happens if you press left square bracket during playback, anything? Rich De Steno On 5/9/2014 5:13 AM, David Bailes wrote: >Hi Rich, >if you press right bracket during playback, this selects a time range from the >cursor to that point. >So if the cursor is initially at the start of the audio, you start playback, >press right bracket, and then stop, this will select a time range from the >beginning of the audio to where you pressed right bracket. There's no need >then to have to press shift+j, since the start of the selection is already at >the start of the audio. > > >David. > > >On Thursday, 8 May 2014, 16:36, Rich De Steno mailto:ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx >wrote: > >Make sure the track is selected. Then put a right square bracket like this, >], at the end of the section to be deleted. Then press shift-j. This will >select from the beginning of the recording to the right square bracket. Then >press the delete key and wait a few seconds. Then press j or the home key and >then the space bar to listen. > >Rich De Steno On 5/8/2014 10:34 AM, Ron wrote: > >Hi all. > >Recorded a 4 hour track and can't seem to edit it. > >I'm trying to cut out the first few minutes of the recording, and pressing the >[ where I want it to start then doing J and delete usually works. However, >after pressing Shift and j the track goes back to the beginning. > >Can someone please advise? > >Many thanks. > >Ron > > >