# Question about Audacity - new track automatically shifts back in time after recording

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**Created:** [June 26, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-audacity-new-track-automatically-shifts-back-in-time-after-recording/409552 "2007-06-26T23:56:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-audacity-new-track-automatically-shifts-back-in-time-after-recording/409552/1 "2007-06-26T23:56:29Z")

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I’ve been using Audacity to record songs on my computer with no problems for a long time. But I installed it on my friend’s laptop and now there’s a major problem: when we record a new track, after I hit STOP to stop the recording, the track (the gray portion) is automatically shifted over to the left (back in time,) making it totally out of alignment with the previously-recorded track. It’s possible to manually shift it, but this is inaccurate and tricky.

This does not happen on my computer, only on this laptop. What can I do?