# Auto Record \\Optimum Settings

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/auto-record-optimum-settings/154923>\
**Category:** Audacity 3 Help Forum\
**Created:** [November 10, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/auto-record-optimum-settings/154923 "2026-11-10T21:57:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wolksby](https://forum.audacityteam.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@Wolksby](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/Wolksby)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2026, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/auto-record-optimum-settings/154923/1 "2026-11-10T21:57:46Z")

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Hi, whether I have changed some setting, something’s not quite right when recordering on Audacity 3.3.3 and where I want the recording to start exactly when the music does, but then keeps recording until I turn it off manually. I have seen all manner of permutations, but it does seem a bit of a ‘work around a workaround’ to get a working option. Previously the recording would start once it ‘heard’ the music amd all successive tracks would then record. At the end, I would stop the recording, and then go through the continuous one track to split it into the original individual tracks, leaving an acceptable amount of space/time between each ‘song’ This was not difficult to do.

But now, the recording stops occasionally when it’s quiet and then resumes, sometimes missing the full start of a track slightly. I did see a 'solution; where it was suggested to start recording with the automatic music synch engaged, and then switch this off, but I’m not sure whether this can be done when the app is in full recording mode.

I never seemed to have trouble, so whether I have inadvertently tweaked something over the course of time, but if you could suggest the best - and easiest fix for what I just want to do, and have a quiet life in the process, I’d be most grateful to hear it! Many thanks!