Having trouble merging tracks

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Using Windows 7, Audacity version 2.1.1, used .exe installer + Lame

I ripped a CD with 5 stereo audio (voice) .wav tracks. I want one single continuous track with the 5 tracks.
I watched a couple Youtube videos for explanation.
I imported all 5 tracks, “selected all”, then selected Tracks\Mix and Render. The 5 tracks are on top of each other rather than end to end before and after I export.
I started over with only 2 tracks imported. Same thing.
I did a cut/paste method which worked OK. But I have a few of these CD’s to do and wanted a quicker method to make a single continuous track from multiple tracks.
Thanks for your help

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When you import multiple tracks, they appear one above the other (as you have discovered).
To make them play one after another you can use “Tracks menu > Align Tracks > Align End to End”.
If you need to adjust the left/right positions, use the Time Shift tool.

If you want to crossfade some or all of the tracks, Audacity has a couple of plug-in effects to make crossfading easy:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/crossfade_tracks.html
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/crossfade_clips.html