[nabs-l] Pausing audio files when working in other windows

Littlefield, Tyler tyler at tysdomain.com
Wed May 8 20:42:17 UTC 2013


Cindy:
I personally like winamp--you can set up global hotkeys to do all that 
for you. Also you can buy media keyboards with a row of buttons (usually 
at the top), one of which is always play//pause.
HTH,
On 5/8/2013 2:35 PM, Cindy Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Window's 7 with JAWS and am curious if I can pause audio files
> while I am in another window. For example, I transcribe recordings as
> part of my job, and it is annoying to alt tab to iTunes. When I do
> this to catch up typing, I miss what is being said. If there was a
> quick keystroke that I could do to pause the recording while I am
> typing in Word, that would be so helpful. Does anyone know if this is
> possible? Are there music players other than iTunes where this is
> possible?
>
> I tried playing the recordings on my iPhone, and they would start to
> play but would then stop and I would get a message saying that there
> was an error and the file could not be  viewed. Are there other file
> types that would work better on iOS devices? These are wave files.
>
> Thanks.
>


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