Paste as new track?

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello,
I have two tracks and want to make selections from each and then copy them end to end.
So I’ve marked a section of track one, copied it, File>New, now I’d like to paste the selection into a new track.
In an image editing program I’d do “paste as new image”.
Is there no “paste as new track” in Audacity? So how do I do this?
Thank you.

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Oh, and Windows 10 x64 and Audacity, both the latest version.
Audacity 3.0.2

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Could create a new empty track within your existing Audacity project, and paste there …
https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tracks_menu_add_new.html

or open a new (empty) Audacity window, and paste there …
https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/file_menu.html

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Thank you.
Perhaps a great feature suggestion for Audacity 4. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Rather than doing that, you can:

  1. Select the audio that you want to copy to a new track.
  2. “Ctrl + D” (or “Edit menu > Duplicate”)

For the second track, just copy and paste in the normal way.

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You can also paste into a new track this way:

  1. Select the audio that you want to copy to a new track.
  2. “Ctrl + C” (or “Edit menu > Copy”)
  3. Click on an empty grey space below the bottom track.
  4. “Ctrl + V” (or “Edit menu > Paste”)
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Those hacks are the bee’s knees! Thank you!