Comment 26 for bug 185928

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed yet.

Other music player apps (e.g. Spotify) use space for pause without apparent issue. The space bar is the largest affordance on a keyboard and play/pause is the most common action in a music player (and often the one with most urgency attached), so it makes sense to use it in this way. As things are currently (v3.4.4, October 2022), I can't even use tab to select the play/pause button, so the argument about accessibility appears spurious in practice.

At the very least, there could be a preferences option to enable play/pause on space.