Previewing Sound in the Sequencer

I’ve got a short simple animation I’ve created and rendered. I can import it, along with a sound file into the sequencer. I’m trying to find a way to preview the animation with sound to see if it’s sync’d up properly.

A couple of questions:

I have the scrub button enabled in the audio settings panel, which I thought was supposed to preview the sound when I changed frames. I hear nothing. Am I supposed to hear a short clip of sound at that point in the animation?

Do I have to render the video each time and preview it in my own media player each time to check for correct audio syncing of the sound?

Is there a way to preview the animation (even in wireframe) with the sound?

Is there some other free tool that I could use to more easily accomplish this? I’m used to just using Audacity along with mencoder to do this just using trial and error. I thought using the Blender sequencer was a much better way. Any help in this regard would be awesome.

Thx. RQ

click the speaker icon in the Timeline Window header.

Thank you thank you thank you!

It’s amazing that over the course of the last 45min I never noticed that button. Dang!