Browser Previewing: No Audio if Track level is -infinity

[DJ K-Tel]

I have just learned about and have started to use the dragging individual tracks to the browser to create
Track Clip.als files.

However for DJing I always set my track level to -infinty so that when the
clips are in the Session view and i'm preview them there, i'm not accidently
launching them into the master audio.

But when i tried to preview these clips in the Browser I see them playing in the preview
but i can't hear them.

After messing/checking with various thing I decided to set the track vol. at zero
and create an new track clip.als file and that worked.

any ideas on how to get around this?

thanks

[Ableton_David]

When you're DJing, do you have a Cue out?

[DJ K-Tel]

that is irrelavant to the question.

But yes i have a seperate CUE out.

Other clips preview fine

[Ableton_David]

To explain why I asked about cue: when you have a separate cue-out enabled, previews from the Browser will play out of the cue channel(s). The same knob that determines preview volume when you don't have a separate Cue Out active, controls Cue volume when you do. So, if you want to hear a preview of something in that set up, make sure you can hear the cue-out. If you want to see this working, enable In/Out view and notice how Cue Out is active when a preview clip is playing, while Master Out is not.