When selecting a new sound in the audio bin, it starts playing immediately (as I have Autoplay enabled). When I click on new sounds or use the arrow keys to select them, I cannot start/stop the playback in the audio bin using the space bar.
However, if I click the play button next to the Autoplay button once, I am now able to start/stop the playback using the spacebar.
I would like to be able to have the spacebar always work when the audio bin has input focus. Is there a way to do this? Is this a bug?
To audition the currently selected asset in the assets browser, press the right arrow key.
We actually did support using the spacebar to audition assets in the assets browser for a while, but because the spacebar was also the shortcut for auditioning events, people found it confusing and frustrating that they had to click on the part of the event editor window they wanted to audition before the keyboard shortcut would work the way they wanted.
Our solution was to have two different keyboard shortcuts: The editor pane would keep spacebar, and the assets browser would get the right arrow key, since we figured people navigating through the assets browser were probably using the arrow keys anyway.
As of the time of writing (October of 2025), there is no way to change the key used by either of the auditioning shortcuts. This is an oversight; I’ll add it to our feature and improvement tracker.
That sounds like a bug; as I said above, the spacebar isn’t meant to work for auditioning assets.
I wasn’t able to get the spacebar to audition assets when I tried here, so I must be missing some key step of what you’re doing to reproduce this bug. Could you please describe how you get the spacebar to audition assets in more detail?
I didn’t know that pressing right arrow key would start/stop. This is fine for me, I don’t care if it’s spacebar or the arrow key, just that there is a shortcut.
I recorded a video that also shows my keypresses. I’m not aware of doing anything more than I described, but this way you can see if I’m missing something:
Thanks for the video! It seems that spacebar does work for auditioning assets in the assets browser found in the assets browser window, while I was only testing in the assets browser found in the event editor window. That explains the discrepancy. Sorry for the confusion.
I’m glad to hear the arrow key shortcut suits your purposes.
