Move playhead using keyboard shortcuts during playback

[KlausKi]

While editing a multitrack file I need to quickly rewind to the beginning and In point, resp., to be able to compare two tracks.

For this I'd usually use the keyboard shortcuts or (on my Windows machine). However, none of them work during playback.

Similar situation: I need to quickly rewind 5 or 10 seconds to rehearse a part in the audio. Audition is missing keyboard shortcuts to rewind a few seconds, too.

Please add the ability to move the playhead using keyboard shortcuts during playback, particularly:

(a)
Rewind n secs (add "n" to Preferences, so the user may choose how many seconds to rewind when hitting that shortcut key)

(b)
Rewind to beginning of multitrack/song.

[mhdaudition]

Please add: rewind to beginning of selection [extremely important]

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

A.D. has the idea.

Are Adobe Engineers not "auditioning changes" while editing audio, layering, adding/removing effects?
How does the team currently back up to the beginning of Selections?
Mouse, Point and Click?

The suggestion by A.D. is solid as stated above and consider...
1. More options in general for jumping to Previous/Starting Playhead location ( a ghosted dashed line)
2. Especially, within a Selected Section of a clip using the Time Selection Tool. Having the ability to go to the beginning of that will be AMAZINGLY USEFUL!

More articulate like M.D. said.

[gtangjr]

I don't just want to move back to the beginning of a selection, I want configurable pre and post-roll without having to initiate recording via the new Punch and Roll settings. So if I make an edit, I want to be able to (with a shortcut key) play from at least a few seconds before that edit without having to use the mouse to manually reposition the playhead. I don't always want this behavior, so it shouldn't be a global setting. Using the spacebar to play/pause as normal should be allowed. The shortcut key also shouldn't toggle the default behavior of normal play/pause. It should just start playback and pre-roll based on my settings and, if there is an active selection, post-roll beyond the selection based on my settings, even if looping is enabled. So, for example, I want pre-roll at 3000ms and post-roll at 2000ms. So if I have a 5000ms time selection with looping enabled, it'll loop a total of 10000ms, starting 3000ms before the selection, playing through the selection, and continuing to 2000ms after the selection before looping back to the beginning. If there is no clip or time selection, the pre-roll setting should still allow me to play my chosen 3000ms before the current position of the playhead. And then it'll play until the end of the track before looping back to the very beginning if looping is enabled.

[mhdaudition]

I need most this too. Please make it for Waveform editor, too. I need "30 second" (the 30 is a preference) skip forward and backward. How about also "half a page ahead" and back. It's like page ahead and back ( and keys), but goes to the middle - so useful.

[booragal]

Have there been updates with this?
Like others Adobe, it would be extremely useful to jump back or forward a set amount of time when a cut or edit is made using the keyboard and not the mouse.
As Breezy pointed out, do Adobe engineers actually work in the industry of audio production?

[ianh12557413]

I'd like to be able to move the playhead back or forward 3 seconds at a time, so that when I've made a delete to cut out a bad section of dialogue, I can quickly skip back to see how it now sounds.

A user-configurable amount of time to jump forwards or backwards would be good.

[n2B3]

I'm also for it for all of the reasons listed below. I specifically looking to be able to rewind and determine the amount of n second

[smithek]

I am very pro this feature as well. I am coming to Audition from Premiere and being able to quickly jump back/forward 1, 5, 10, etc seconds is integral to editing for me! Would love having this as a keyboard shortcut with a preference for how many seconds we can jump.

[edsavio]

This. We need it.

[alisonh23074529]

please add ability to go back 3 seconds to listen to an edit. i could do this decades ago on early digital editors

[Ian26689495wrlo]

As already mentioned. It is ridiculous not to have the ability to jump forward or back a specified number of seconds. I waste so much time reviewing audio and having to go to markers or fiddle around with the playhead. Right arrow = forward n seconds, left arrow back n seconds, with the ability to have a modifier to increase or decreas the n value.

[booragal]

Agree with everyone below. For a professional DAW product, it is crazy that a feature such as this is missing, especially for the price Adobe commands.

[Reuben2715543031pr]

Yes please! And/or add in a "rewind N seconds and play". 

[Sebastian.S]

It's 2023 and people requested this basic feature FOR YEARS!! 
Pleade adobe, do something about this!

[mhdaudition]

I'd like to see them actually using the product. I suspect they probably rarely do except for testing. And then I expect what they do is laboriously select and move positions via mousing on the wave form and on buttons.  Beginners or amateurs don't mind working this way. Real users meanwhile can suffer.

[KlausKi]

I suppose, no-one at Adobe is ever going to read or even consider any post in this community forum.

Let's be frank: Adobe just established this forum to be a playground for their users for chatting, quarrelling and have personal fun.

The only time an Adobe employee is ever going to read a comment here is when someone here is reporting a comment. And this poor soul at Adobe is just some underpaid low-rank staff member.