I need to hit the spacebar •6• times to stop previews. I've been researching online for a week now, and trying all the suggestions, and none have worked for me. Often the suggestions refer to preview options that do not exist for me. Hitting the esc key does stop previews but the CTI flies off to some random area, not where I want it to. I'm using AE 13.7.2.3 and a Mac/Yosemite.
I simply want to cache my work area, hit the spacebar to start playing the cache, whether or not the entire work area has been cached, and I want it to stop when and where I hit it.
Related: I like to mark certain musical points in the timeline by highlighting the music track, hitting the period key, and then hitting asterisk key at certain points. This now causes the music playback to stumble, and none of the marks are where they're supposed to be.