Audacity Forum

Whenever I press record It always makes a new track. Is there anyway to set it so that when i hit record and I have a specific track selected it will record over that track?

No. Your choices are to start a new track each time, or pause recording.

If, instead of pressing Stop, you press the Pause key, Audacity will pause recording at that point. If you press Pause again, recording will resume. There may be other variations, but I'm betting you don't find one that lets you damage an existing track.

Koz

Just to add to Koz' reply - if you want Audacity to act like a tape-recorder (with it's erase head in front of the record head - on good machines anyway) - all you need to do is to delete the original track first, by clicking in the little X at the top left hand corner of the track.

WC