How to begin playback on a repeat time

While working on a song, I often want to playback from a position and obey repeats, and other times ignore them, especially when I am playing back to hear a transition into a 2nd ending. In Finale, you can specify which repeat the playback head starts in. For example “start here but this is the 3rd repeat”. What is the equivalent in Dorico? I know about the Playback Options > Repeats > Play Repeats, but that’s not dynamic enough.

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There’s no way to do this at the moment, I’m afraid. It has been often requested and is on our wish list for the future.

Thanks! Is there a key command for Playback Options > Repeats > Play Repeats that I can assign a shortcut to? I couldn’t find anything. Although I do have Keyboard Maestro that might work…

There’s no way to set a key command for this directly, I’m afraid. You could indeed contrive a macro of some kind with a third-party utility to achieve it.

For anyone who’s interested, here’s a keyboard maestro macro that seems to work. Curiously, pressing “Play repeats” as a button (the deactivated action in the screenshot) doesn’t work. It toggles the box alright, but Dorico doesn’t recognize it and the “Apply” button does not get activated. I had to work around that by clicking on a found image instead.