When a sound file is played on Anki on the answer side of the card, sometimes I know the answer quickly and I go to the next card, but the sound continues to be played (which is annoying because then I have to wait, cause I cannot concentrate on the next card, limiting my speed). Is there a way to abort the sound being played?

http://ichi2.net/anki/wiki/FrequentlyAsk...nsition.3F

If your talking about the pre made KO deck with audio, I eventually just took the audio out of the reading card. I was using a seperate card for listening pratice anyways.....

I've asked for more audio control before but it seems it's a bit too difficult for our man resolve to pull off. Most of the time the audio stops when I grade a card quickly, but if it doesn't, I think of it as a chance to practice my working memory--that is, listening to audio of a previous card that interferes with my phonological loop during subvocal articulatory rehearsal when reading the next card. Developing my dynamic chunking abilities, honing my retrieval structures, expands working memory. Or something. ;p

Incidentally, if you're using video clips in Anki, you can pause them by hitting the space bar. I bet if you smash some other keys you might discover other shortcuts, I'm afraid to though. Once in a while I hit a key while a video clip's playing and I see some kind of volume bar or something.

Unless you're a masochist and like to torture yourself with the repeating audio, the easiest way to solve it is this:

download Audacity
Click Generate-->Silence
Make it 1 second or something
save your file as an mp3 or something
In Anki choose any deck and click add card
click add audio and pick your silence
notice it will barf out a stream of numbers on your card that references the audio
copy that stream of numbers/letters
follow the instructions in the FAQ link above on where to paste it

I tried the silent audio thing as well as the "don't play audio initially" plug-in, and neither worked. I ended up just turning off the audio for the KO2001 deck as they spoke so slow it wasn't helping with anything.