I am new to Ardour and am slowly making my way through the documentation with a test project.
I have have come across a problem where if I press the Home key or the graphical button to skip to the beginning of the session it no longer skips to the beginning and I can no longer play the session with spacebar or graphical button. Thereafter, the only way I can play the session is if I manually move the playhead somewhere and then press the play button or spacebar.
This was not a problem before, so I supect that I have accidentally changed something somewhere, as opposed to it being a bug on my installation.
Many thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I am using Ardour 8.4.0 on Debian 12 and I am a novice!
I have recently encountered the same problem. A workaround for me was to move the start marker slightly, as I could enable playback normally from any position except the exact start of the session.
The log file showed the following errors in my case, which may be related:
2024-04-11T16:25:08 [ERROR]: format_position: negative timecode position: -5
2024-04-11T16:25:09 [ERROR]: SndFileSource: could not seek to sample -5 within High%L.wav (No Error.)
2024-04-11T16:25:50 [ERROR]: AudioSource[High%L.wav]: peak read - cannot read 4096 samples at offset -5 of a75538366680 (Success)
The region referred to here was also displayed in the editor as yellow diagonal stripes when zoomed in far enough.
Please join us on IRC (https://ardour.org/chat) or file a bug report and let us know when we can interact with you in realtime to determine what is causing that.