I recorded a tract that is 120 minutes long- but the tract keep going with no recording being shown. How do I end the tract when the recording is done so when i make a mp3 it it as long as the recording?
 

Position your cursor at the end of your track in the timeline, and drag all the way to the beginning. You should now see a shaded region in the timeline that is the length of your song. Now when you export your audio to mp3, it will only export the section that you selected. Hope that helps.

Hey Lead- that did the trick- i can't thank you enough!!!
Just back into this thing- working the cob webs out!!!
Peace

Glad to help buddy!

Did you intend to record 120 minutes of something or did you forget to turn it off at the end of the session?
 
 

Haha, GH! I'm under the assumption it was a lecture or something like that. Btw, is this question about 'transients'? Cuz I  just found out about transients.

Hey Librim, on your future tracks there is an easier option.  In your Track View go to Options.
Put a checkmark in the box Stop At Project End.  From then on, you dont have to select tracks and drag the timeline ruler.   Your Itunes etc, will stop playing the track once the music stops. 

Not necessarily. The option will cause MC to stop at the project end but in all Cakewalk DAWs the project end is the last bit of data encountered in the project not when the sound stops. It is possible to have an automation node or MIDI event well past where the sound stops.
 
The setting can be a handy indicator of data past the "end of the song" but also has the side effect of preventing plug-ins which generate audio on their own from playing unless there is data in the project.

yes but with your audio tracks its easy to see from the waveforms the track end.   I agree that with midi, you might have to pull the end of the track back.  I've noticed this with session drummer for example where (as you say) although there may not be any data there, the track length goes past the last drum hit. But just dragging the track end back works for me.  I've never had an issue with song length once checking that option.   Horses for course I guess.

Agentcalm
yes but with your audio tracks its easy to see from the waveforms the track end.  

This is generally true, but there are things like envelope nodes and timestamp information that can make it difficult to find the end of the audio track.  Just something to keep in mind when the general rule does not seem to work.  Common issue when importing clips with timestamp information.