What happens when a track is muted in a DAW?

When a track is muted in a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), the track stops playback while other tracks continue to play. This allows you to temporarily silence a specific track within a session without removing it entirely, enabling you to focus on mixing or adjusting the other elements of your project. Muting is a useful feature for evaluating the overall sound of a mix, experimenting with different combinations of tracks, and making mixing decisions without losing any work, as the muted track can be unmuted later when needed.

In contrast, removing a track would permanently delete it from the session, and the other options do not accurately represent the function of muting.