Wait, What? Audacity Records In The Background?!

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and I’m gonna warn you this particular
video may have you scratching your head
going yeah but that’s just for some of
you that’s for some of you who’ve tried
this and know that it works for others
you’re gonna go oh I did not know that
and I would love for you to tell me
which is which one you do the comments
anyway here’s the point
I had a workout recently and I casually
mentioned in the workout that audacity
will continue to record even if it’s not
the frontmost app that you’re you’re
playing with and I saw somebody say
something in the chat that was like what
wait what what wait a minute what so
let’s take a look at it what you’re
seeing here is my desktop and I’ve got
BBEdit behind audacity audacity is in
the front I’m gonna go ahead and I’m
gonna start recording on audacity there
you go audacity is gonna record there
you go and so you can hear me the
waveforms aren’t very big because I’m a
little bit further away from the mic but
that’s okay so here’s what I’m gonna do
I’m gonna keep rolling with this and I’m
gonna read what’s on the screen hey
there audacity records perfectly even
when you can’t see it working in a
recent workout I casually mentioned
viewing your scripts on your screen when
auditioning rather than printing them
out one of my students happily freaked
out and claims she didn’t think that was
possible
well it is here’s how and I’m going to
click over to BB edit so that audacity
is now in the background right so you
don’t see audacity rolling but if I
choose to go back to audacity there it
is it’s still recording it as you can
see on the screen there’s no break in
the recording so it keeps recording even
in the background you don’t have to
worry about it we tell people to scroll
their script behind audacity but if you
just don’t have the room on your screen
or you really just feel comfortable
clicking over to the script you’re not
going to do any editing and I’d ask
where you have to do you know stop
fast-forward record or anything like
that then you can just leave audacity
rolling in the background and happily
bring BBEdit or whatever your your thing
is word a PDF reader up front and there
you go that’s it
audacity will continue to record no
matter what other things you have
rolling and no matter whether it’s the
foreground app or the background app so
you can put it in the background you can
click to something else and you can rest
assured that it will keep recording for
you so there you go something short and
sweet did you know that if you knew that
great if you didn’t know that if that
was a surprise to you Wow
congratulations let me know in the
comments below let me know if there’s
anything else about audacity that you
find really fascinating I I love it I
love audacity I love using it for all
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