Global Toolbar

The global toolbar provides audio play controls, audio play cursor positioning controls, waveform viewing controls, and volume controls. Global toolbar controls apply simultaneously to all waveform panels.

Global Toolbar Controls
Icon	Description
	Home: Moves play cursor to beginning of the waveform
/	Play : Start playing the audio from the current play cursor position. Toggles to Pause when clicked. Pause: Stops audio play back at its current position, toggles to Play when clicked.
	End: Moves the play cursor to the end of the waveform
	Loop: Loops waveform playback continuously. If the Play button is visible it will toggle to the Pause. Clicking the Pause button will stop Loop playback. Clicking on the Loop button will stop the loop and the playback. If there is a selection on the waveform, only the selection will loop.
	Horizontal Zoom Out: Increases the amount of data that is visible on the screen; however, less detail is discernible.
	Horizontal Zoom In: Decreases the amount of data that is visible on the screen; however, more detail is discernible
/	Lock/Unlock (Operational in live mode only): Selecting Lock will freeze the waveform display; however, the Audio Expert System™ will still continue to analysis new audio data.. Selecting Unlock will jump to the waveform end and then resume following the waveform.
	Mute: Mute will mute / unmute audio playback for all Wave Panels. Individual Wave Panel Mute control will override the Global Toolbar Mute for that panel only.
	Volume Down: Decreases the audio playback volume of all Wave Panels based on the current volume level setting for each individual Wave Panel.
	Volume Down: Decreases the audio playback volume of all Wave Panels based on the current volume level setting for each individual Wave Panel.
	Average Bit Rate Overlay: Displays an overlay graph of the average bit rate for the audio stream in each Wave Panel. The average is based on a 0.10 second moving window. When active, will deactivate Actual Bit Rate Overlay and Audio Rating Metric.
	Actual Bit Rate Overlay: Displays an overlay graph of the instantaneous bit rate for the audio stream in each Wave Panel. When active, will deactivate Average Bit Rate Overlay and Audio Rating Metric
	Audio Rating Metric™. Used only when a Referenced Mode file is detected (See "Referenced Mode"). Displays an overlay graph of audio quality on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being excellent quality and 1 indicating bad quality. When active, will deactivate Actual Bit Rate Overlay and Average Bit Rate Overlay.
	Export Data: Exports audio data in .raw and/or .wav format for selected Wave Panels or all the Wave Panels. This button also lets user export Event Table data in .csv format. Refer to Waveform Export Audio Data for more details .
	Help - Opens Frontline software help.
/	Collapse/Expand: Toggles between collapsing and expanding all Wave Panels. Note that the Wave Panel Local Controls Collapse/Expand control will locally override the Global Toolbar Collapse/Expand control.

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