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FranzPattison
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April 30, 2026
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How to stop auto-scroll from automatically turning off every time I take any action during playback?

  • April 30, 2026
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So, I edit audiobooks, and a big part of this is going through the playback and making minor adjustments as it continues to play. I have been using Audition 2017 for years but I recently upgraded to 2024 because 2017 has all sorts of weird bugs that cause it to crash.  Mostly everything is good but for some reason in newer versions they have changed the auto-scroll behaviour, such that if you take any action during playback, it disables auto scroll, and you have to re-enable it by pressing A.  This is infinitely infuriating because it means every time I delete a little space or paste a selection in, the auto scroll pauses and unless I press A every time, the cursor just trails off the end of the screen.  This change is not at all useful and is merely a nuisance.  How can I revert the behaviour to the intuitive way it used to be?  (And if it’s not possible to revert to the old system, can you please add a toggle to the options menu so that it is possible?) Thank you. 

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    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 30, 2026

    It doesn’t do that here! Go to Edit>Preferences>Playback and Recording and make sure that there’s a check in Enable auto-scroll when starting playback or Recording. This works fine with both Pagewise and Centered Scrolling.

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    FranzPattisonAuthor
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    April 30, 2026

    No, that’s not the issue.  It scrolls just fine, but the scrolling automatically turns off when an action is taken.  

     

     

    This is the same issue explained here (which i see you commented in) but this was 6 years ago, so I was hoping there would be a fix by now.  The behaviour in 2017 does not do this, the auto scroll doesn’t automatically turn off every time you select anything. The way it is now, you have to press A every time you do anything during playback, so that the cursor doesn’t just proceed off screen.    I don’t know who thought that was a great idea, but I feel like this could be easily made optional by an extra tick box in the options menu that either had this functionality or restored the functionality from 2017 and other versions before this was changed. 

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 30, 2026

    I see what you mean. If its behaviour has changed since the 2017 release and nobody specifically requested it for any reason (which I suspect they didn’t) then you could make a reasonable case for this being a bug…

     

    You might like to write it up in Bug Reports.

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