Issues Editing Label

This is a known issue.

To avoid this when creating a new label, go to Audacity > Preferences > Tracks Behaviors and check “Use dialog for the name of a new label”.

When editing a label:

  • click in the label
  • type the first character
  • click in the label again
    You should now be able to edit the label normally.

Or you could right-click in the label and choose “Edit label”.

The problem is that the label (in fact, the entire project window) is losing keyboard focus, so when you type a character that is also a command (such as space-bar to play, “r” to record) the command is executed instead of the character being typed.

See also: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/misbehaving-on-ventura/65879/1

– Bill

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