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Aha. I tried it again with the same piano MP3, and exported as WAV. Bingo, no weird extra space. Looks like it may very well be the Lame encoding.

Thank you everyone who tested this as well!

Thanks kozikowski. The original audio files came from a free Flash audio loops page - they're MP3s now, but I'm not sure what the native format was to begin with. I may be able to get the wav files from that site - would that make any difference? I downloaded piano2-CoolEdit.mp3 from the link you pr...

Hello! I'm prettymuch a newb with Audacity (and audio in general). I'm using it to clean up some seemless audio loops I'll be using on a private website. The original audio loops had a small bit of silence followed by a snap/crackle at the beginning of the track. I imported the file as MP3, saved it...