Previewing Audio

I'm editing a cartoon in Motion and was wondering if it's possible to preview the audio by dragging the toggle? If I just press play, it sometimes takes a secons for the audio to start while the video's playing and then sometimes it won't stop playing.
But can I change a setting or something so I can preview the audio by dragging the toggle (looks like an unside down green triangle on the timeline) ?

hi,
in the preferences you can set playback of complex sequences to drop video frames and play audio. This is what I do since i need to time to audio so much.
it should play straight off then. Unless of course you are trying to layer up audio in Motion and are using mp3's or other compressed formats. In which case it could slow it all down.
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