I hope someone can help too, this problem has prevented me from using Audacity at all. On 1/3/14, Robert Hänggi <aarjay.robert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2014/1/4, Brad Erhardt <brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx>: >> I have been playing with the time shifter plugin by David R. Sky. If >> anyone >> is familiar with this it allows you to put two numbers in representing >> the >> amount you want the left and the right channels shifted. Then you select >> seconds or milliseconds and press okay. >> >> The strange thing is however that no matter how many times I seem to make >> sure that only one track is selected the timeshifter plugin seems to be >> shifting both my tracks. If anyone can give me some clues as to how to >> fix >> this it would be appreciated. > The plug-in just works with the tracks selected, it can't modify the > number of tracks. Therefore, you must have unintentionally selected > both tracks. > I assume that either the undo command or the "Select all if nothing is > selected"-preference has played that trick. > > First case: > - both tracks were selected > - you've deselected one track > - you've applied the time shift tool. > - the shift was to large/small, so you've pressed undo > - You've now tried another value but... > - ...both tracks are moved now. > > This is because the undo action reselects both tracks again--a quite > annoying behaviour. > > If you want to "freeze" the selection and solo/mute states, you have > to call a dummy effect (for example amplify by 0 or an analyse effect > or "()s" in the nyquist prompt). > > Second case: > - only one track is selected > - Selection has a length of zero > - if "Tracks-->Select all Audio in Project if none Selected is > checked, all tracks over the whole time extent will be selected > automatically, if you try to time-shift. > > Uncheck the mentioned check-box for this case. > In future, a message box will appear if the selection has zero length. > > 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