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mattjamie
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February 10, 2026

Markers moving in Audition (therefore making them useless as they're not "marks"!

  • February 10, 2026
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Adding a marker to audition is super easy - just click m and there it is, yay.  However, they don’t stay where you put them.  So, they are useless.

I’ve added markers to a track (single waveform, not multitrack view), saved the file and come back to it later.  Sometimes the markers are just not where I put them.  Other times they move if I do an edit.  Any kind of inserting a recording will move all the markers (or rather, keep the marker where it was while shifting the rest of the waveform along with the new insterted recording).  Sometimes pasting audio into the track will mess things up.  Other times it just seems to happen anyway.

Any ideas how to make markers an actual functioning feature rather than a waste of time?

(I’ve shared this in a group with audio narrators and many of them report the same issue, some suggesting editing from the end of the track backwards as this might be a workaround.  I’d prefer to have it just work properly if possible.  Tech support suggested it was due to any kind of customisation of the workspace I might have used (this is not true), and also suggested “reset to saved layout” in workspaces would restore the markers (this is also not true).

Latest AA version.  

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    mattjamieAuthor
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    February 10, 2026

    (I should point out that apart from inerting a recording, it’s impossible to get AA to replicate this error at will.  It does it at random on projects I’ve worked on.  If I just mark up a track and try to make them move about it won’t happen.  Unless I record into the track then they shift as described.  This can be Punch and Roll or just a direct record in)

     

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    February 11, 2026

    It may help if I explain how markers are implemented in Audition, and how they were originally designed to work, because this seems to be the root of the issues you raise.  Markers aren’t really a part of your file at all, but the information about them is tagged onto ithe end of the audio as an attachment, if you like. This enables apps like CueListTool to work on them independantly. The original intention was that you would mark sections of your original file as ranges, and import these into Multitrack view, and edit there.

    It should be obvious now that if you do any editing in Waveform view the relationship between the audio and the timing numbers will shift - they are not locked at all. And also it should be obvious that this isn’t about to change. Markers work better in Multitrack anyway, as they can be tied to clips and move with then - far more flexible!

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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    February 11, 2026

    In fact, everythig to do with editing is way more flexible in Multitrack - including making original recordings, because results are written direct to file rather than a temp file, which doesn’t get written until your final save. And it’s non-destructive, which makes it much easier to change your mind, and do experiments.

     But I must remind you that timeline markers in Multitrack behave the same as they do in Waveform, and that if you want to preserve them you have to use clip-based ones.

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