I’m recording audio in my Windows 11 laptop, the first track is 3:47 long, for instance.
I then proceed to record a second track, one I know will be around 5-6 minutes long.
Well, Audacity stops recording at the 3:47 mark of the earlier recording!
Steps taken: Sound-enabled recording disabled, etc.
I know there’s a setting to either enable or stop this behavior, if someone could point me to it, would be enormously appreciated. I was able to correct this in the past, but cannot seem to search my problem online.
The simplest way is to click in the Transport Toolbar on the icon that looks like the fast-backwards on a taper recorder or video-recorder. That is “Skip to Start” and will move the cursor to T=0 with no region/range selected in the track.
Using Record on a new track will then start recording on the new track from T=0.
Alternatively, if you want to start the second recording at a different time, click in the first track at theat time to make a point selection there and then use record on new track.
You can also deselect all by clicking in the gray/black space below the tracks.
This is all stuff I never had to worry about - in this version of Audacity until two weeks ago, or earlier versions of Audacity.
My work flow is simple:
Record my backing track, then my effects, all at T=0 by default, then, move the pieces around to fit the project. (loud toilet after second verse, etc. lol!). Done.
So doing what you said works, but like I said, during over 15 years of using Audacity, this is the first time I’ve had to do this.
Previously, I’d just click somewhere in the empty space below the recorded/loaded tracks, and Audacity would automatically start recording the next new track at T=0, and record till the cows came home.
