Suddenly, "skip selection" playback not working

Report · Dec 03, 2016

Summary: I downloaded Audition CC 2017 yesterday (previously, I was using CC 2014). It worked great. Today, after a couple hours of editing in Waveform view, "skip selection" suddenly stopped working.

I am using a late-2015 iMac, 27" with Retina display, 24 MB RAM, 3T fusion drive. Sierra 10.12.1. After my most recent updating of Audition, I am using Audition 2017.0.1 release, build 10.0/1/8

Here's what happens:

1. I make a selection

2. If "skip selection" is not chosen, the selecion plays back properly. (With or without "repeat selection")

3. If "skip selection" IS chosen, when I press the spacebar, I hear a sound, the playback head starts to move (from the beginning of the selection, not from 3 (or however many) seconds before the selection, as it should. The playhead seems to jitter as it moves. And I hear no further sound.

So far, here is what I have tried:

1. Close all other applications

2. Restart iMac

3. Update Audition to the latest version.

4. Check that Core Audio is selected as the playback hardware.

Everything seems to be working fine - unless I choose "Skip selection" and press the spacebar to play.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Doug

Report · Dec 03, 2016

Update: I have copied Audition 2014 from a backup drive. It works perfectly!

This appears to be a problem with Audition 2017.

Doug

Report · Dec 04, 2016

storyleader wrote:
This appears to be a problem with Audition 2017.
Doug

If it is, it's only on Macs; it works fine on this Windows laptop. When you press 'play' the CTI jumps back three seconds, and play starts, with no jittering around. And what that means around here is that one of the devs needs to pick this up - they're the ones with the Macs!

Report · Dec 04, 2016

storyleader wrote:
This appears to be a problem with Audition 2017.
Doug

I'm running Audition ver. 2017.0.1 (Build 10.0.1.8). (Quad MacPro 5,1, 32 gigs of RAM).

Skip Selection works as expected on my Mac ...

-paul.

@produceNewMedia

Report · Dec 15, 2017

I experience exactly the same problem on my PC running Win8 build 11-0.0.199

Report · Dec 15, 2017

To put this into perspective you cannot be having the 'same problem' since:

a) You are running Audition on a PC

b) You are using Win8, whatever that may be

c) You are using Audition CC2018

So none of the conditions match any of the previous posters bugs.

IMHO it would be better to start a completely new thread.

Report · Dec 15, 2017

I beg to disagree. I have the same "problem" when using CC2018 as well as CC2017. Yes it is on different hardware than the original post, but above it was mentioned by SteveG that the function worked as expected on a PC. Not in my case.

So updating to 2018 does not seem to solve the issue - at least in my case.

Report · Dec 15, 2017

Well you didn't tell us a lot of that in your previous post. So the extra info is relevant and might have helped if you had given us a bit more info earlier. Also there is a known bug in CC2018 to do with playing selections so the situation was likely to have changed between 2017 and 2018.

However on my Win 7 PC it works as expected in both Audition CC 2017 and 2018. So something else must be amiss.