Tony, you are correct about this: There seems to be no way of ever playing a song without regeneration immediately after it is loaded unless it is frozen. I'm not sure what to say except that it has always been this way since the RealTrack feature was introduced ten years ago. I guess we are just used to it.

There used to be only one Play icon, and it regenerated or not as needed. When they made it two icons (Play, and Gen/Play) with the GUI revision a few years back, I think they were trying to make this clearer and added the tool tip.

I'm sure there is a technical explanation having to do with how a song is loaded. If you look at a song file with and without frozen tracks, you will see that the frozen track song is much larger, because the audio has been saved (apparently).

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