Audacity Forum

Every time I record something, the recorded track I have on gets recorded too. How do I turn that off?

I'm using headphones. The only way I can record without recording the preview track is to have everything else on mute ):

I've used audacity before but it's been a long time since so I forgot pretty much everything. But there was one thing I remember! And that is, I can play a track-- like the instrumental version of a song while recording my vocal record and only record my voice. But when I tried doing that, the new t...