Tracks Menu: Mute/Unmute

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The Mute/Unmute submenu enables you to mute or unmute all of the tracks in your project in one go, without having to use the buttons Mute and Unmute in each track's Track Control Panel.
Tracks Menu provides commands for creating and removing tracks, applying operations to selected tracks such as mixing, resampling or converting from stereo to mono, and lets you add or edit labelsGenerate Menu lets you create audio containing tones, noise or silenceAudacity includes many built-in effects and also lets you use a wide range of plug-in effectsThe Analyze Menu contains tools for finding out about the characteristics of your audio, or labeling key featureThe Tools Menu contains customisable toolsThe Extra menu provides access to additional Commands that are not available in the normal default Audacity menusThe Help Menu lets you find out more about the Audacity application and how to use it. It also includes some diagnostic tools.Adds a new trackMixes down selected tracks to mono or stereo tracksAllows you to resample the selected track(s) to a new sample rate for use in the projectRemoves the selected track(s) from the projectMutes or unmutes audio tracks in the projectPans left right or center audio tracks in the projectCommands that provide an automatic way of aligning selected tracks with the cursor, the selection, or with the start of the projectSorts all tracks in the project from top to bottom in the project window, by Start Time or by NameEnsures that length changes occurring anywhere in a defined group of tracks also take place in all audio or label tracks in that groupMutes all the audio tracks in the project as if you had used the mute buttons from the Track Control Panel on each trackUnmutes all the audio tracks in the project as if you had released the mute buttons from the Track Control Panel on each trackThe MenusTracks-Mute UnmuteMenu.png
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If a track is muted, it cannot be heard in the project and is not exported from it.

Bulb icon The track mute and solo buttons are usually used to change which tracks are muted, rather than these menu items.

Mute All Tracks  Ctrl + U

Mutes all the audio tracks in the project, as if you had used the Mute buttons from the Track Control Panel on each track.

Unmute All Tracks  Ctrl + Shift + U

Unmutes all the audio tracks in the project, as if you had used the Mute buttons from the Track Control Panel on each track.



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