quick Audacity question

[dr4sight]

I'm relatively new to using Audacity and was playing around with an mp3 clip.

I must have pressed something so that the main horizontal bar instead of showing the deep blue pattern now only shows a thin line graph.

I have taken some screen shots.  What I want is to get back to the bottom view.

https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZW7Y0XZdLDR5aei3mRNm6wL8u6Rd5yRAFTV

thanks,
Larry

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[dr4sight]

Not to confuse the issue.  I see the attachments did work  (they didn't show in the preview).
So I want the thick bar view not the squiggly thin line view.
How do I get back to that?

[LaHawk]

Looks like you might have hit the zoom button?

[dr4sight]

It's certainly possible that I did that.
But since that time I've gone to the Zoom tab and tried every option.  None of them return the screen to the view I want.

thanks for the reply

Larry

[Roger Brenizer]

Have you tried...View...Track Size...Expand Collapsed Tracks, Larry?

[jwyvern]

On my version I get from your unwanted view (which is a horizontally zoomed view got by pressing Ctrl 1 repeatedly) to the more conventional display by going to View/ Zoom and choose Zoom Normal.
Or from the main screen press the shortcut Ctrl and the 2 keys to go normal directly. Keep pressing Ctrl 3 if you still want to squash the display closer together.
John

[alanclare]

If you're wasting a lot of time on this, you could always uninstall and reinstall. It's a free-to-use program.

Alan

[Roger Brenizer]

In lieu of uninstalling and reinstalling Audacity, as Alan suggested, you can reset Preferences to factory defaults by exiting Audacity, deleting the audacity.cfg settings file in Audacity's folder for application data and then restart Audacity.

[jwyvern]

It's not rocket science demanding extreme measures 

The required functions are in the standard menus and shortcuts. Please take note of my previous post and try it before escalating.

John

[overover]

@dr4sight
Hi Larry,

you obviously only changed the ZOOM factor. Simply press "Ctrl + 2" to set the zoom to normal.

The easiest way to ZOOM the waveform view is to press (and hold) the "Ctrl" button and turn the Mouse Wheel upwards to ZOOM IN or downwards to ZOOM OUT.

If you zoom IN, you will see more details of the waveform, and of course it will be LONGER. Zoom OUT if you want to see the entire waveform of the file in question at once.

Note: Use the horizontal Scroll Bar (at the bottom of the Audacity window) to move the waveform view horizontally.

Hope this helps!


Edit:
... ooops, I just saw that John (jwyvern) had already explained it very well above ...


Best regards,
Chris

[dr4sight]

I appreciate all the suggestions but so far they haven't worked.
Here is what resulted when I hit ctrl-2  -    the whole graph got squished.


I am a little wary about messing around with the config file.
It's not crucial that I get the view back to the way all the others look but if there was an easy way to get there I was hoping to do it.

Larry

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[overover]

Hi Larry,

as mentioned, press and hold the [Ctrl] button and use the Mouse Wheel to adjust the waveform view as desired. And use the horizontal Scroll Bar!


Best regards,
Chris

[C-clef]

Up in the ribbon at the top of Audacity you will find a little set of four magnifying glasses.

The left hand one zooms in, the next zooms out, the extreme right hand one makes the entire file fit to the window.
Try that last one.

Colin.

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