After opening a sound (see File | Open), use one of the
play buttons, such as Play All
,
to play it. Each button starts playback at a different place, which can be configured
under the Play tab of the Control Properties window.
Right-click on one of the play buttons to quickly change the settings.
To start playback at any point in the sound, click on the time line under the waveform in the Sound window or right-click on the waveform and choose the Play From Here command from the popup menu. You can right-click-and-drag to select a part of the sound to play as well.
While a sound is playing, it is displayed on the visuals. The current position is displayed in the Sound window as a moving vertical line on the waveform (playback marker). You can move the start and finish selection markers to the playback position by using the bracket keys, [ and ] or Edit | Selection | Move Start.... See Editing Overview for more information about changing the selection. You can set cue points by using the Ctrl+Q key or the Edit | Cue Point | Add Cue Point command.
If you do not hear anything during playback, check the following:
If an error occurs during playback, make sure the correct playback device selected and the audio hardware is capable of playing at the sampling rate and quality of the file.
Try the following:
If nothing helps, try playing a file in Windows Media Player to make sure playback is working on your computer.
While a sound is playing, pause it with the pause
button.
Remember to use either play or stop later. Pause freezes the visuals
and the current position marker so you can see the shape of the sound in
the visuals or move the selection markers.
Playback can be stopped immediately with the stop
button. Note that recording is stopped using a
different button.
Use the rewind
button or fast forward
button to quickly move back and forward through the sound. The current
position is displayed in the
Sound window
as a white, vertical
line on the waveform. You can adjust the speed of rewind and fast forward with the
Play tab of the Control Properties window, as described
previously. When one of these buttons is used to start playback, the region played is
determined by the Play 3 setting.