audacity / audacity/audacity

Allow recording multiple takes on a single audio track

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Enhancement Request medium feature recording
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Description

### Your idea

The ability to record multiple takes of a specific clip on a single track.

### Problem to be solved

If you have a project with multiple audio tracks for different parts of a song (Singer 1, singer 2, singer 3, Chorus, guitar, piano) it can be hard to manage multiple takes. New takes are recorded onto their own separate track. If you want to mix and match takes of a single instrument, you need to manually drag and drop across tracks, which can get confusing keeping track of what recording belonged to which take. It makes iterating and deciding between takes difficult.

### Prior art

This was resolved in Logic Pro X where alternate takes are listed within a single track and can be swapped between.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JAUq3gEl0I

### Additional context

My current method of recording multiple takes, with each recording take going on it's own track.

![image](https://github.com/audacity/audacity/assets/1330770/0b4cccc8-298e-48a2-87c0-8078417357f4)

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