In the Preferences dialog box, click the General tab to access the following options:

Force Spacebar To Always Trigger Play

Plays a file when the spacebar is pressed, regardless of which dockable window has focus.

Auto‑Play External Launch

Lets you start Adobe Audition and play an audio file from the command line. (See Play audio from the command line.)

Auto‑Scroll During Playback And Recording

Scrolls the waveform display in sync with playback. Auto‑scrolling takes effect only when you zoom in on a portion of a waveform and play past the viewed portion.

Upon A Manual Scroll/Zoom/Selection Change

Determines auto‑scrolling behavior when a manual scroll, zoom, or selection change occurs:

Abort Auto‑Scrolling Until Next Play/Record

Stops auto‑scrolling during the remainder of the current playback.

Resume Auto‑Scrolling Only After Playback Cursor Enters View

Keeps the current portion of the track or waveform in view until the playback cursor reaches that point in the timeline, and then begins auto‑scrolling to keep pace with the playback.

Resume Auto‑Scrolling Immediately

Continues auto‑scrolling whether or not the playback cursor is in view.

Edit View Right‑Clicks

Determines right‑click behavior in the Main panel.

Popup Menu

Displays a menu. (To extend a selection, Shift‑left‑click.)

Extend Selection

Extends selected ranges instead of displaying the pop‑up menu. (To see the pop‑up menu, Ctrl‑right‑click.)

Mouse Wheel Zoom Factor

Determines zoom behavior when you turn the mouse wheel on Intellipoint‑compatible pointing devices. Values from 10% to 80% work well. The higher the value, the further you’ll zoom in when you turn the mouse wheel.

Custom Time Code Display

Defines the number of frames per second (FPS) assigned to the Custom time format in the View > Display Time Format menu.

Edit View Selections

Determines the amount of waveform data that is automatically selected (if nothing is already highlighted) when you apply an effect.

View

Automatically selects only the area of the audio file that you can currently see on‑screen.

Entire File

Automatically selects the entire waveform, even if you’re only viewing a portion of it.

Double‑clicking always selects the current view. Triple‑clicking always selects the entire waveform.

Select Audio After Paste

Automatically selects the inserted audio after a paste operation. Deselect this option to place the cursor at the end of the inserted audio instead.

Deselect this option to quickly append multiple segments of pasted audio.

Default Fade Curve Type

Determines whether the default curve in Edit View is Linear/Logarithmic or Cosine. To enable the non-default curve, hold down Ctrl when dragging on-clip fade icons in the Main panel. (See Visually fade in or out.)