[Audacity-quality] minor bug, or just a minor limitation - loop play synchronisation.

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

It has recently been mentioned on the forum that when a short section
is repeated using "loop play", the playback cursor and the actual
playback position eventually move out of synch with each other (the
playback cursor lags behind the actual playback position).

To reproduce this effect, create a short tone (say 4 seconds) and
silence part of it so that you can identify a specific position when
it loops.
Select the 4 seconds of audio and start loop play (SHIFT+Space).
Go and make a cup of tea or coffee and come back after it has played
through 40 times or so and the playback cursor will (probably) be out
of synch with the audio playback.

If classed as a bug I'd guess it would be P4 at most, but is it just a
limitation of the hardware ?

Forum thread:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=53315&p=129128#p129128

Steve