After Effects CC - Music Length / (Audio)Waveform

My friend has a problem:
When he have a Composition which goes 00:07 and he'll import Musik which goes 04:43, than the music is cutted to 00:07! And he can't here something when he do the Ram-Preview.
Further when he activate the Waveform, he can't see the Audio-Wave!
So, what can he do? What do he wrong?
(Sorry for bad english I'm german)
Thanks!
IcySkill

Open the compensation settings and change the length of the composition to match the length of the audio.
Open the After Effects preferences and change the length of the audio preview.
With the layer selected press the L key twice to reveal the audio waveform.
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