Browser previews not playing all the way to the end?

Samuel540
Is anyone else experiencing this?

 
Based on the response, apparently not...I don't, although admittedly, I've never tried to play anything much over 4 minutes. You give no indication of how long the file plays before it "cuts off"...10 seconds? 1 minute? 10 minutes? Remember, the Browser's intention is to provide a "Preview." There may be some arbitrary memory limit as to how much RAM will be given up to store previewed audio.
 
SONAR includes a user-settable length for DSP audition times; you could request a similar parameter for preview times although I don't know how many others would consider this important. If I need to hear what something sounds like 8 minutes into a file, I'll drag it into the project and set the now time at 8 minutes rather than listen to it all the way through from the start.
 

And tying into that; when trying to preview an audio file in the browser more than once (one click followed by another), you just end up with the edit-file-name thingy as if I'm in the Windows explorer. Could we get a fix on that, please?!

 
It was never broken, you're invoking the rename function. To play a clip again from the beginning, hit Stop, then Play. Being able to play a file by clicking it once is a shortcut that's tied into using the Auto-Preview function. This function assumes you're going to be auditioning multiple presets serially. However Stop/Play works whether or not Auto-Preview is selected.

Something like this should've been sorted out in past updates looong ago but I guess things like a 'Fullscreen' and 'Add Track' button were more pressing at the time.

Given that I couldn't find any references to anyone else not finding several minutes of preview time enough, and the Stop/Play function isn't broken, at least to me just about anything else would seem more pressing. YMMV.
 
 

Samuel540
I should've included this bit of info before but the files aren't long audio files. They're samples/loops.

 
Hmmm...my browser playback runs out at around 5 minutes, so you should not be having problems with short samples or loops.

I'm used to the more simple approach in other DAWs like FL Studio, Live and Maschine where there is no Play/Stop button to restart the playback on a file in the browser so, with SONAR the workflow feels a bit slower in comparison.

 
That's understandable. SONAR's browser is not simple - among other things it's bi-directional, does drag and drop for plug-ins, accesses the project audio folder, and can do "multitrack" loop browsing by ctrl+clicking files in Auto-Preview mode...great for construction kit libraries when you want to see if a particular bass loop works with a particular drum loop. But I would assume there was also a design decision behind the way it works, with the assumption that once you're heard a loop, it's more likely you'd want to rename it than play it again. 

I'll have a look at the browser audition settings and see if there's anything there.

The browser settings are for auditioning DSP processes, so I don't see how they would affect the browser (mine's set for 3 seconds so obviously, that's not putting a limit on browser playback). I don't know what would cause the browser playback to stop after a few seconds, I've never had that happen with any version of SONAR unless I stopped it deliberately by selecting another loop. 

mgustavo
Edit: You could try changing the Loop Preview on the Browser settings, as it still works for me. : )
 
Best regards

Thanks. I'll try that