Professional sounding fade out.

[Edgar]

@steve

Nyquist can’t distinguish the difference between white space and silence.
I think that most folk assume (like you) that the selection needs to go to the end of the track for all fades, even the Audacity fade, so it’s not really a problem.
There is a slight plus side to the behaviour in that if the user wants the fade-out to end more abruptly they can do so by selecting a little way past the end of the track.
On balance I think “keep it simple”.

In the case of prolonged applause after the music ends (the most common use of fade out for me) I like that I can select (even if I need to generate some extra) about 5 seconds of silence so the fade out is NOT to zero. In fact I was going to ask Steve to craft a fade out with a user option to do just this!