John, You wrote:
Hi. I have found something very strange in goldwave -- I had a small selection of about a second and hit f3 and it kept right on going, but then I hit control left bracket and after that f3 just played the selection -- what am I missing here? Control left bracket? what is this intended to achieve? can't bring to mind what it ought to do. What value is your play2 (f3) set for? My play1 (f2) is set to play all, play2 (f3) selection, i.e whatever is between the start and finish markers and my play3 (f4) is set to view, i.e whatever is on the screen. Sounds to me you have your play2 set to selection same as me, what do you want to achieve? More and explicit information please.