Record in-game audio with pressing hotkey for recording

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Coverdrave
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Record in-game audio with pressing hotkey for recording

Post by Coverdrave » Sat Jun 27, 2015 9:05 am

Hello, I have a problem with your software.
It is really cool software (needed some time to understand that if I wanna Audacity to record the exact same audio coming out of my laptop's speakers, I should use the Speakers option for recording the audio :D ), but I want to record audio when I am in-game. Like pressing the button and it records. The hotkey works, but I have to switch to Audacity tab to be started recording. Please make a option in the next update to record audio when in-game, without need to switch to Audacity tab, it's gonna be really helpful.
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Re: Record in-game audio with pressing hotkey for recording

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat Jun 27, 2015 1:19 pm

Coverdrave wrote:Hello, I have a problem with your software.
It is really cool software (needed some time to understand that if I wanna Audacity to record the exact same audio coming out of my laptop's speakers, I should use the Speakers option for recording the audio :D ), but I want to record audio when I am in-game. Like pressing the button and it records. The hotkey works, but I have to switch to Audacity tab to be started recording. Please make a option in the next update to record audio when in-game, without need to switch to Audacity tab, it's gonna be really helpful.
I made a note of your request - thanks - but it can't happen until we update the version of the wxWidgets interface toolkit we use. That update is a big job.


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Coverdrave
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Re: Record in-game audio with pressing hotkey for recording

Post by Coverdrave » Sat Jun 27, 2015 3:21 pm

Okay, thanks. So this is going to be added with sure? Also a good idea will be adding a overlay (like Fraps's FPS shower) to show that the audio is recording and how much long it is (that's only a idea, add it if you want, not forcing someone for it, but the hotkeys thingy is very important and maybe more people will use Audacity for it's hotkey record compatibility).
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Re: Record in-game audio with pressing hotkey for recording

Post by kozikowski » Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:59 pm

Audacity is a collaboration between a number of different developers. Nothing is for sure and program changes can take a long time.

We do recommend FRAPS if you can't get Audacity to do what you want.

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Re: Record in-game audio with pressing hotkey for recording

Post by Coverdrave » Sun Jun 28, 2015 6:12 am

Okay, thanks for the help. Hope that the hotkey feature is going to be available in the next update soon.
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