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Bill, that has solved it. Thank you so much. One tick box in preferences that you visit once has sorted it.

Thanks to you both Steve and Bill for your help and patience. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Neil

Sorry for the confusion. The first screenshot is of the five tracks so show you how it records at the end of track 1 instead of track 2.

Screenshot two was just me hitting record, stop, and record again to see if it creates multiple tracks. But it doesn't, it just creates one stereo track.

I just tried that and it still jumps to the end of track one and records there while leaving a silent line on track 2. Just to discount that, I opened up a new project and hit record. Usually each time I stop and record again, it creates a new track but it just adds them all to the same track. Is it...

Yes, both tracks 2 and 4 are empty. On the old version of audacity I could record directly to those tracks and then save as a new name.
So each new podcast episode, I would open the template and record to those empty tracks. Hope that makes sense.

Apologies if this has been asked before but I need a little help. Since upgrading to version 2.4.1 it looks likes something has changed which has left me scratching my head... I have a podcast template which consists of 5 tracks Track 1 Intro Music Track 2 My episode Intro Track 3 Podcast Interview ...

I am running Audacity 2.2.0 on Mac OS 10.14.4. Yesterday was a huge day for me as I had the opportunity to interview Gary Vaynerchuck. The interview went perfectly and the content was great. But then disaster struck, as I was talking to him, I unplugged the USB mic before saving the file by accident...