I learned today (by searching the forum! thanks @pleasebeus! Playhead carries on past end marker - #2 by pleasebeus) that it’s possible to make Ardour stop playing when it hits the End marker, under Prefs → Transport → Stop at the end of the session
With this enabled, Ardour stops when my song finishes. Hooray! I always wondered what good the End marker was for; the only thing it seemed to affect was the Export dialog (admitttedly, that’s pretty important).
However with it enabled it’s impossible to play anything past the End. I’ll often keep takes and samples I’m not using (but might want to!) off to the right side, out of my song but on the same track, either just because that was where they happened to end up as I picked through takes or because I want to keep them attached to the track’s effects chains:
With “Stop at the end of the session” enabled it’s impossible to listen to these samples. I can start the playhead from there but only hear a stutter before Ardour immediately stops again.
The Start marker has no such restriction: any samples before the Start of the song I can listen to.
My feature request is simple: make “Stop at the end of the session” stop playback when the playhead crosses the Stop marker, rather than when it is >= the Stop marker.
Thank you and thank you as always for such an elaborate and professional piece of FOSS.