Since every second idea somehow resembles another cool idea, I allow myself to consolidate a list of requested consolidation features and just add mine to the list:
- The consolidate dialog could offer a way to select the target file
- Record location could be selected [1]
- Mixer input
- Post effects
- Post EQ
- Post level and panning
- Post track
- Post master
- Import options [2]
- As Audio Clip routed to master (current behaviour)
- Audio Clip routed to source mixer track
- New Audio Track
- Resulting grouping [3]
- Group with source track, as head (current behaviour)
- Group with source track
- Ungrouped
As I said, there have been a lot of feature requests concerning consolidating. But despite that, there haven't been many reactions by staff.
[1] "recording position" has also been requested e.g. here and here by juhok2000 and by Vincent Zauhar
[2] re-routing has also been requested e.g. here and here and here by juhok2000, by Sonny Costa, by Vincent Zauhar, by Antistatic (if I'm not mistaken) and probably many times more
[3] grouping behaviour changes have also been requested e.g. here by DjNotSo and here by melodiamela