How to get rid of "Click to preview"

[Boulderdash]

Hi,

since my last update I have a button saying "Click to preview" in my preview browser. How can I get rid of this thing? I want to click my clips and the should play. Is this still possible?

kind regards,
bd

[Tarekith]

Click on the headphone icon at the top of the browser.

[Boulderdash]

Click on the headphone icon at the top of the browser.

I see where this is going. If I preview .wav-files the previewing works. By "works" I mean, I click on the .wav-file in the browser and the file starts to play in an instant. If I click on the small headphone icon, the file doesn't start playing.

If I click on my .alc-File I have to hit the "Click to preview"-Button. Clicking on the small headphone icon changes nothing. Any more ideas?

kind regards,
bd

[Rinsemeister]

It's probably because the file you are previewing requires midi devices to be loaded in order to play the sound.

[Boulderdash]

It's probably because the file you are previewing requires midi devices to be loaded in order to play the sound.

No, it's just a simple .alc-file. It's an audio track I dragged into the session edit earlier. I edited the clip, normalized it, warped and set the loop points right. Then I saved this clip to my clip library.

kind regards,
Christian

[Angstrom]

"click to preview" appeared for clips in Live 8, I think it was because previously you could accidentally select a clip and it would autoplay, and if that clip contained something massive like Session Drums multi-mic it would all get a little unresponsive. So they added this thing to prevent that situation.

The best 'solution' is : you can preview using the arrow keys, up and down to puck the clip, right to play.

this works quite well once you get used to it.

[Boulderdash]

Thanks for the explanation, Angstrom.

kind regards,
Christian