# Play animation starting from a tagged frame doesn't work

**URL:** https://community.aseprite.org/t/play-animation-starting-from-a-tagged-frame-doesnt-work/14268
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/play-animation-starting-from-a-tagged-frame-doesnt-work/14268 "2022-05-15T15:20:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Fabiano](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/fabiano/32/12143_2.png) [@Fabiano](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Fabiano)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/play-animation-starting-from-a-tagged-frame-doesnt-work/14268/1 "2022-05-15T15:20:42Z")

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Hi all!  
I’m on Aseprite for Steam, Windows 10.  
I’ve noticed a strange behavior in the timeline.

![aseprite timeline tag bug](https://community.aseprite.org/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d94eda3f4f581b453ee465c3c72cb41ff16e7fc7.gif)

If I tag a frame and then try to play the animation from that frame, the animation doesn’t start at all.  
It doesn’t matter the frame number.  
If I then delete the tag, I can go back and play from there again.  
I don’t believe this is an intended feature.

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### Author: ![Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/olga_galvanova/32/3294_2.png) [@Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Olga_Galvanova)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/play-animation-starting-from-a-tagged-frame-doesnt-work/14268/2 "2022-05-15T17:30:03Z")

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hi, fabiano! it is intended. when the animation is started inside tag, it will loop in it. which in your case is single frame. if you start the animation outside any tags, it will loop normally (unless you have ‘Loop’ tag in timeline).

you can right click on play button and switch on “play all frames (ignore tags)”.

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### Author: ![Fabiano](https://community.aseprite.org/user_avatar/community.aseprite.org/fabiano/32/12143_2.png) [@Fabiano](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Fabiano)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2022, 12:01pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/play-animation-starting-from-a-tagged-frame-doesnt-work/14268/3 "2022-05-16T12:01:18Z")

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Oh! I see!  
Thanks for the reply, it’s clear that I’m still quite new to Aseprite then. 😃