agree with live vs ghost discussion, and that goes for the simple act of moving classicly selected audio items, too - these should not be playing while "in hand" being dragged under the play cursor
big change. hope it's possible. refer to my first request for this here, at the bottom of my first post on a [fixed circa sept 2019] bug that surfaced as a result of REAPER doing things "live" instead of "ghost"
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=224925
EDIT: actual FR here, the above links to the related BR.
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=218075