Greetings, GoldWave V5.70, I've just been playing and discover the following.
If you open the file, don't play or do anything with or to it, but simply do ctrl-g. You are now in an edit box which, as you've not played the file will contain the value 0:00:00.0000 so now, assume you want to go 10 minutes and 25 seconds into the file, simply replace by overtyping 10:25. If you then put your start marker here, start playing and this is where it begins. If you also wanted to end the segment, say, at 15 minutes 45 seconds, no need to play the file, simply do ctrl-g, it should display the value you entered earlier, i.e 10:25, don't move the cursor but simply type in 15:45, press return and put your finish marker. If you now play the selection by using one of the three play keys, you should start at the start marker and finish at the finish marker. If you use the k key, it also will start at the start marker but will play past the finish marker. I have my three play buttons set as follows: Play1 (f2) is set to play all, i.e from start to end of file. Play2 (f3) is set to play selection, i.e whatever is between the start and finish markers. Play3 (f4) is set to play view, i.e whatever is showing on the screen this is determined by my zoom ratio, I usually only have one second's worth of the fjile on the screen but, of course, this can be less or more. I find these settings ideal all the time. Don't forget also, to set the scrub value, this is an edit field found after the wind speed settings in the play tab. By default (certainly until this version of GoldWave) it is set to 0.000 but I set mine to 0.150, meaning whenever I move a marker or arrow key, I hear 0.15 seconds' worth of any recording, this I find invaluable but there is a definite nack to making use of the feature. Sometimes, when moving markers, you may hear more than you need to delete, therefore, then, play the selection to find out exactly what is between the markers. A case in point, is, when you might need to remove a mouth click, usually only about .0002 of a second. I hope these comments are of some help - I have been a GoldWave user now for over 8 years and have been involved with sound processing eversince the days of razor blades and reel-to-reel tapes!
