Paste Replace instead of Paste Insert.

[steve]

@steve

There’s also a plug-in for Paste Replace (somewhere on this forum - I’ll have a look)

Here it is (or more precisely, here they are )

Punch Copy/Paste

A pair of plug-ins for simplifying “punch in” editing. Unlike the standard paste function in Audacity, the “punch” paste replaces the selected audio with just the right amount of pasted audio to match the duration of audio being replaced, thus the speed and timing of the track is not changed by pasting. These plug-ins were developed from a feature request on the forum (https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/alternate-equal-length-paste-command-resolved/28836/1) to streamline the work flow of replaci…