Why Are New Tracks Always Added to the End? You Should be Able to Add Them After the Selected Track

[steve]

but building from source and writing my own plug-in currently seems like several orders of magnitude more work than just dragging every stupid track up as I add them

I totally understand
Nevertheless, if you enjoy Python, then you’ll probably love mod-script-pipe when it reaches the repos. The power of Python takes Audacity’s macros to a whole new level.

Unfortunately I’m not fluent in parentheses-based programming languages (ie. Lisp or whatever Nyquist is based on), so I’m not able to write such code.

Yes, Nyquist is a form of LISP (an extension of XLISP). It was developed by Professor Roger Dannenberg, who is also one of the co-founders of Audacity.
“Nyquist Macros” are quite a new feature in Audacity. As yet, there’s not much in the way of examples / tutorials, but I thought this idea of moving the bottom track up to just below the current track was an interesting challenge, so I’ve written a plug-in.

This plug-in requires Audacity 2.3.2 or later.
I’ve only tested this plug-in on Linux but it “should” work on Windows and Mac as well as Linux (provided that Audacity is new enough).

When installed, the plug-in appears in the “Tools” menu.
trackmove.ny (1.12 KB)