Just to update the foot pedal issue...
After much ineffective advice from two different online/email sources (eg, updating drivers had no effect), it turns out the problem was solved by a BIOS update.
I can now report that this Bluetooth Music Pedal -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluetooth-T...=2DR8KPCAZO1VT
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does works with Transcribe - up to a point anyway.
Firstly, the Foot Pedals dialogue in Transcribe doesn't recognise it (i.e., the "Select Pedal" button only shows my qwerty keyboard). I presume that means I can't program it any way.
But - without any setting up - the five options on the pedal (tiny push buttons which you need to choose by hand before using it as a foot pedal) work as follows:
[1] = skip through the waveform screen by screen (left or right) (equivalent to page up and page down)
[2] Left pedal = create/extend a selection of the waveform
back from the play point; Right pedal = reduce the selection back towards the play point. (I.e., you can't select forward from the play point.)
[3] = move through the waveform in small steps (left or right) (equivalent to line up and line down)
[4] (works with mouse pointer).
Left pedal moves play marker to pointer position
Right pedal selects waveform between play marker and pointer position. (I.e., this enables the forward selection you can't achieve with [2].)
[5] Left pedal only = Play from play marker / Stop.
Settings 1-3 are affected by an additional Repeat switch (a slider you need to set beforehand). Repeat On means the holding the pedal will continue the move. Otherwise it's just one move at a time (per pedal press), even if the pedal is held down.
This doesn't affect option [5]: one press of the pedal will set Play in motion, and another press will stop it.
The disadvantage here is that there is no pause option. Play always begins from wherever the Play marker is.
Just to underline: you can only have one of those 5 options on at any one time. No way of switching between them using your feet!
I'm still not sure how useful I will find any of these options myself. I was hoping to reduce my mouse use, which - with any lengthy transcription operation - threatens CTS...
; but obviously some mouse use is still necessary. I'm currently checking out all the keyboard shortcuts....