Pause/record shortcut always on help

Hi guys,

I use audacity in such a way, that when I am recording I am flicking between multiple windows that I need to be viewing (websites, articles etc).

I want to be always able to pause/record with the shortcut (P), so that I can keep pause/recording whatever window I am looking at.

The problem is that the keyboard shortcuts only work when Audacity is the ACTIVE window. Which makes this impossible as I have to always select audacity window, then press P…

Is there any fix for this…

Am I better off with another program?

Any help is greatly appreciated. If this is covered elsewhere, I apologise… I did search and found nothing.

Best wishes

Matt

That is correct. Audacity does not support “global shortcuts”.

You could request this feature on the “Adding Features” part of the forum. Personally I think its a bad idea because then it would be extremely easy to accidentally destroy a recording just by pressing a key in another app - you would not know that the recording had stopped until switching back to Audacity, by which time it is too late.

I wonder if AutoHotKey can do this for you…

See also, this post:

Dear both,

thankyou for your helpful replies. I will check out auto-hotkey…and having followed the thread as well…OBS!

Thanks again

Matt