Record Starting at Beginning

Audacity 3 Help Forum
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Greetings,

I’ve seen this question on here a lot, but haven’t seen an answer that can help me. I recently moved to a different lap top computer, and re-installed Audacity. Now, I find that when I want to add a new track, It starts recording at the end of the other tracks (I can play from the very beginning, however; just not record from the very beginning).

In the past I never used any SHIFT key combinations, such as SHIFT R. I’ve seen that as a suggestion for this problem. However, that seems to create a new track, and more importantly, is awkward for me. Also, SHIFT R creates a stereo track. I prefer mono.

I used to simply click through the menus to create a new track, clicked at the start (I made sure the yellow vertical line was at the start), and clicked the red square to record. But that doesn’t work now that I’ve re-installed on this new machine. Does anybody know why?

Maybe I installed the wrong version of Audacity or something.

Thank you for your help,

…dave

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“Record on a new track” is an option in Audacity preferences …

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_preferences.html

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I was able to set the default track type to Mono, so I guess I can get used to starting a new track with SHIFT R, which now creates a mono track by default (and immediately begins recording on that new track).

I set that by doing AUDIO SETUP>AUDIO SETTINGS and changing the value in the box next to “RECORDING DEVICE” to “1 (Mono)”. Previously it was set to “2 (Stereo)”. After I restarted Audacity, the value was still “1 (Mono)” so my change will remain in effect.