Playback/pause help

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RDawg527
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Post by RDawg527 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:27 pm

Im sorry for all the posts you guys. I really do appreciate the help though! Another problem im having is with playback. Before, in my older version of Finale ('08), when I would play back what I've written, if during the playback I pushed the PAUSE button, it would do just that, PAUSE the music. Then I would push play and it would pick right up where it left off. In my Finale 2014 however, when I push PAUSE, it halts the music altogether and when I push play it just restarts the whole thing. Its kind of annoying when I want to just hear one measure....I dont want to have to listen all the way from the beginning if its just measure 61 i wanna jump to and hear. Any help? thanks guys!
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Post by miker » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:30 pm

Switch to scroll view. In the playback controls, select "play from leftmost measure."
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Post by RDawg527 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:36 pm

miker wrote:Switch to scroll view. In the playback controls, select "play from leftmost measure."
as soon as i hit the pause button, everything else in the playback options goes dim and all i can press is the play button again....
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Post by RDawg527 » Wed Aug 06, 2014 6:37 pm

also, before I play back what I've written, all that is selectable is the play button.
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:48 pm

RDawg527,

Are you using Windows Finale or Mac Finale?

The Windows version and the Mac version are a little different in their Playback user interface.
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RDawg527
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Post by RDawg527 » Thu Aug 07, 2014 5:31 pm

Peter Thomsen wrote:RDawg527,

Are you using Windows Finale or Mac Finale?

The Windows version and the Mac version are a little different in their Playback user interface.
Im sorry. I forgot to mention it. I am currently using Windows Finale
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu Aug 07, 2014 5:53 pm

One thing to try (I am not sure whether you have tried it already):
Expand the window Playback Controls.
I could be wrong here, but I think that you in the Windows version must click the little speaker icon to expand the window.
When you have expanded the window, you will see some more options.
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Post by RDawg527 » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:27 pm

Peter Thomsen wrote:One thing to try (I am not sure whether you have tried it already):
Expand the window Playback Controls.
I could be wrong here, but I think that you in the Windows version must click the little speaker icon to expand the window.
When you have expanded the window, you will see some more options.

got it to work! thanks again!!
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