Audio track shows gray not blue and no sound.

[onetallguy]

I have 11 tracks. Track 11 shows and plays sound normally. Tracks 1 through 10 show tracks on gray background and does not play sound. Mute is not on. Tracks previously played fine. How do I get turn gray to blue and get sound out of tracks?

Thanks
onetallguy

[steve]

Is the "Solo" button pressed on track 11?

[onetallguy]

I have audacity 1.3.14 on Win 7. I do not see any solo button, nor can I find one. Where is it located? The only button on the track is the Mute button and the down arrow button. I can not find any solo button.

Please advise,
onetallguy

[onetallguy]

I finally found how to make to solo button visible. I went into edit/preferances/tracks/solo button/ and clicked standard. It was on none. Once the Solo button was visible, it showed to be indented. I clicked on it and all other tracks became visible and functional.

1. I have never used the Solo feature; I did not even know what is was for.
2. How could the solo function become viable if no Solo button was visible?
3. Exiting the program and restarting did not return tracks to standard visiblity and usage. A flaw, I think.
4. Thanks Steve for your direction to this cause. I would never have fixed this without your help.

onetallguy

[steve]

I don't know how you managed to get a track soloed if the solo button was disabled, but I'm glad you have solved the problem.

1) By default the Solo button is enabled and set to "Standard".
2) When a project is saved, the state of mute and solo buttons is saved in the project.
3) When Audacity is closed, the solo button mode as set in Preferences (standard, simple or none) is saved with the Audacity Preferences.
4) Audacity Preferences are retained until you change them.

By themselves, these are all reasonable, but you have illustrated a potential problem that I had not considered before:

If a project is created and saved with one or more tracks set to solo, then saved - if then the solo button is set to "None" - on re-opening the project it is not possible to un-solo the track(s) that have been set to solo. I think someone has made an error in the logic that controls this. I agree that the current behaviour is not correct so I'll submit a bug report for this.