Foot pedal reliability and backups

And my Infinity IN-USB-3 started randomly double-tapping after about 18 months, and it’s tanking my turnaround time. I’ve seen a few of you say your IN-USB-2s are still kicking years later — do you keep a spare or switch to keyboard shortcuts when a pedal acts up? Looking for a practical backup plan that won’t wreck ergonomics.

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I’ve had the IN‑USB‑3 start “double‑tapping” too — bumping the player’s guard time/debounce (e.g., in DSS Player or Express Scribe) to about 150–200 ms stopped it… I still keep a used IN‑USB‑2 as a donut‑spare in the drawer so ergonomics don’t change mid‑job. What player are you on so we can point to the exact setting?

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Moving my IN‑USB‑3 off a hub to a direct USB 2.0 port and disabling ‘USB selective suspend’ in Windows stopped the random ‘double‑tapping’ for me. As a backup, I keep an Olympus RS‑27H mapped to the same hotkeys so I can swap in under a minute; if you’d rather skip a spare, a tiny AutoHotkey play/pause toggle works in a pinch but isn’t as ergonomic. It’s a spare tire for your foot.

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