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.
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.