Hey Chris, thanks for sharing this feedback!

It sounds like you might want to open your Editor Settings and turn off "Auto-Preview." This would let you manually press play/pause (or click the space bar) so you can control when the audio plays back.

Read this article to learn more about editor settings: https://help.resound.fm/en/articles/8524317-editor-settings

Does that fix the issue or are you describing something different here altogether? Thanks!