= Main menu > Audio =

This menu controls the playback of an audio recording that you would have made to complement the GPS tracks you collected during surveying. 

If you are audio mapping a lot, you will probably want to use the [wiki:Help/Preferences/Toolbar Toolbar Preferences] to put the buttons for audio playback on your toolbar in the familiar arrangement of such controls.

See [wiki:Help/HowTo/AudioMapping Audio Mapping] for techniques you might adopt to make efficient use of audio recordings.

Also see:
  * [[Image(Help/Icons:importaudio.png,20)]] [wiki:Help/Action/ImportAudio Import Audio] to make an audio Marker Layer.
  * [[Image(Help/Icons:audio-sync.png,20)]] [wiki:Help/Action/SynchronizeAudio Synchronize Audio] with the GPS track.

As well as these controls, you can jump directly to a point in the sound track related to a position on the GPX track by
  * dragging the play head [[Image(Help/Icons:audio-tracer.png,10)]] close to a trackpoint
    * if you don't see the orange play head arrow moving along the track while you play audio, make sure the 'Display live audio trace' option in [wiki:Help/Preferences/Audio Audio Preferences] is on.
  * clicking on an audio marker [[Image(Help/Icons:speech.png)]]

== [wiki:Help/Action/PlayPause Play/pause] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-playpause.png)]] period

== [wiki:Help/Action/NextMarker Next Marker] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-next.png)]] F8

== [wiki:Help/Action/PreviousMarker Previous Marker] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-prev.png)]] F5

== [wiki:Help/Action/Forward Forward] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-fwd.png)]] F7

== [wiki:Help/Action/Back Back] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-back.png)]] F6

== [wiki:Help/Action/FastForward Fast Forward] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-faster.png)]] F9

== [wiki:Help/Action/SlowForward Slow Forward] ==

[[Image(Help/Icons:audio-slower.png)]] SHIFT+F9

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