Bugzilla – Bug 2303
Playback does not start at the saved cursor position on reopening a saved project.
Last modified: 2020-03-02 12:26:18 UTC
When opening a previously recorded project and selecting play the play should start at the last cursor position in the saved file. Instead it starts at position zero requiring the stopping and restarting playback to get to the saved position. This is a regression on Audacity 2.3.2.
Curiously Audacity does know the remembered cursor position but on project reopening. 1) The Tome toolbar shows "--h--m--s" 2) press Play 3) Observe Play starts from T=0 4) Observe Time toolbar counts from T=0 5) Now press Stop 6) Observe Time Toolbar resets to remembered value from the previously saved project 7) Press Pay 8) Play starts from remembered value from the previously saved project (as Cliff originally reported)
At commit 7c17c158fd3da504b644dcef74d9e1a194c8482a, behavior exactly as in the steps to reproduce began. But at the earlier commit 274331cc267008f7c49aea771274814f5d79ebdd, bad behavior began, and step 7 instead also played from the beginning, not the correct place.
Note commit 7c17c158fd3da504b644dcef74d9e1a194c8482a was a fix for bug 2159
Fix at https://github.com/audacity/audacity/commit/5a2eaf9a527b702f2bb6adb67cb530051c7baf84 (though Travis failed the build at the previous commit, c886851edc915c5f34df791380b800e9eee83ed0)
(In reply to Paul L from comment #4) Tested on W10 and macOS 10.15.3 with Audacity 2.4.0 c63a163 On both platforms playback starts at the saved cursor position. I tested this a) by closing and then restarting Audacity b) similar but first clearing the audacity settings folder (just to ensure that the playback position wasn't being stored there - or being used from there by Audacity).
Works fine on Linux too now. RESOLVED FIXED.
