{"id":1901,"date":"2024-08-30T16:10:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/play-selection\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:10:43","slug":"play_selection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/documentation\/quickstart\/play_selection\/","title":{"rendered":"2.5. Play selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dbimp\">\n<div class=\"prevNextLinks top\"><span class=\"prevLink\"><a href=\"\/en\/documentation\/quickstart\/scrolling_and_zooming\/\">\u2190 2.4. Scrolling and Zooming<\/a><\/span><span class=\"nextLink\" ><a href=\"\/en\/documentation\/quickstart\/spectrogram_spectrum\/\">2.6. Spectrogram &amp; Spectrum \u2192<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"dbimpcontent\">\n<h2 class=\"title\">Play selection<\/h2>\n<p>In the last section we have played back the entire recording. But let&#8217;s say that we are<br \/>\n      interested in a specific part of the recording and want to repeat it a few times in a loop. To<br \/>\n      do that, you can select a time range by holding the <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Command<\/strong><\/span> key (on Mac) or<br \/>\n      the <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Control<\/strong><\/span> key (on PC), and then clicking and dragging the pointer over the<br \/>\n      time range that you want to select.<\/p>\n<p>Do this now: Hold <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Command<\/strong><\/span> (or <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Control<\/strong><\/span> on PC), and then<br \/>\n      click on the pitch line at 3.5 seconds, and while holding the mouse button, drag the pointer<br \/>\n      to 5.5 seconds, and then release it. This should select the time range that encompasses the<br \/>\n      third note: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure\">\n<a name=\"fig_qs_-a01-select-note3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"figure-contents\">\n<div class=\"mediaobject\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/en\/quickstart\/qs-a01-select-note3.png\" width=\"800\" alt=\"Select time range 3.5 to 5.5 seconds\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"title\"><b>Figure\u00a02.14.\u00a0Select time range 3.5 to 5.5 seconds<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br class=\"figure-break\">\n    <\/p>\n<p>Now you can press <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Space<\/strong><\/span> to play the current selection. If the loop button<br \/>\n      on the toolbar is pressed, the selection will repeat until you stop playback. Try to move the<br \/>\n      edges of the selection with the mouse. This can be done even during playback.<\/p>\n<p>Selecting a time range is not just for looping playback, but also for using this range for<br \/>\n      further analysis and averaging, and to apply <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/documentation\/program-reference\/editing-audio-files\/\" title=\"3.4.\u00a0Editing Audio Files\">edit<br \/>\n        commands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To reset the selected time range, hold <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Command<\/strong><\/span> \/ <span class=\"keycap\"><strong>Control<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n      and single-click anywhere in the main window. Alternatively, you can also invoke the menu  <span class=\"guimenu\">Edit<\/span> \u2192 <span class=\"guimenuitem\">Reset selection<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prevNextLinks bottom\"><span class=\"prevLink\"><a href=\"\/en\/documentation\/quickstart\/scrolling_and_zooming\/\">\u2190 2.4. Scrolling and Zooming<\/a><\/span><span class=\"nextLink\" ><a href=\"\/en\/documentation\/quickstart\/spectrogram_spectrum\/\">2.6. Spectrogram &amp; Spectrum \u2192<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 2.4. Scrolling and Zooming2.6. Spectrogram &amp; Spectrum \u2192 Play selection In the last section we have played back the entire recording. But let&#8217;s say that we are interested in a specific part of the recording and want to repeat it a few times in a loop. To do that, you can select a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":441,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1901\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vocevista.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}