ina previous post charlie fogle steered me to a tutorial that allowed me to create a click track and align an imported audio. ran into a few problems such as the last two bars being a rallentando ending

obviously the click track didn't like that so i had to cut the end and paste onto another track then the click track worked fine.

before i did that when i tried 'align with click track' i got the message i needed to 'consolidate audio'. that actually cut the last twenty bars of the song.

even without aligning to click track the consolidate command cut a large part of the song.

no idea why it happened but just a warning - if your audio has a rallentando end, cut the end and copy to another track.