Holding space and clicking the flag will disable flashing as usual. The visual may be off sync on the first flag click. https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/youtube/zuLiC1PBctg/
I was making another song and it was deleted earlier today, because I had to close it over some performance issues. I was not surprised or irritated at all and just made a new one right away. It is definitely better than what I was making originally. I focused more on practicing automation to make the music more dynamic.