Interface Preferences

Summary

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Interface

• Autoscroll while playing
  page flips to the right when the cursor travels to the right hand end of the wave display, either during playback or recording. Always keeps the cursor on screen, but may cause breaks in recording or playback if you have a slow machine.
• Always Allow Pausing
  
• Update spectrogram while playing
  Tries to keep the spectrogram updated while playing. This requires a lot of cpu power, and really isn't a good idea unless you're playing a really small piece or have a powerful CPU and plenty of RAM. In combination with Autoscroll while playing this can cause pauses during playback or recording.
• Enable Edit Toolbar
  Gives you a toolbar of a few useful functions. Check out the page on the Edit Toolbar for more information.
• Enable Mixer Toolbar
  Turns on display of the Mixer Toolbar used to control soundcard mixer settings.
• Enable Mixer Toolbar
  Turns on display of the Meter Toolbar, with VU meters you can use to monitor the recording and playback levels of your project.
• Quit Audacity upon closing last window
  Sets Audacity to shut down when the last project window you are working is closed. If you turn this off then audacity will keep re-spawning new blank project windows until you do File > Quit.
• Enable dragging left and right selection edges
  Lets you manipulate selections by clicking on the edges and dragging them along the timeline.
• Enable dragging left and right selection edges
  Sets the transport control button order as:Pause, Play, Stop, Home, End, Record. Rather than: Home, Play, Record, Pause, Stop, End.
• Language
  Lets you change the language of the menus and other onscreen text to the language of your choice. Simply choose the correct option from the drop-down list. Note that for languages with unusual character sets you need the correct fonts installed. If your menus come up all ???? that's what's wrong.
• Minimum of dB mode display range
  This sets up the scale used for logarithmic waveform displays. Because Decibels are logarithmic, it is impossible to have a 0 point on the scale, so some very quiet sounds will display as silence. If you you reduce this effect by increasing the range, then the louder part of the scale gets squashed, so there is a choice of settings for different uses. -48dB is a good compromise for general work.