Silence getting truncated

[rcbrust]

I have an audio track with 5 seconds of silence at the end. When I export to mp3, the 5 seconds of silence is getting truncated. Is there a setting I'm missing or a certain way of creating the silent period that I need to do?

Thanks,
Randy

[kozikowski]

MP3's family name is MPEG1, Layer 3. It's a video format and conforms to video frame segmentation. It's one of the reasons we recommend strongly not to do production in MP3. How much silence did you lose?
Koz

[rcbrust]

At the end of the track is a section of audio and then 5 seconds of silence. It truncates it to the end of the section of audio, i.e. removes the full 5 seconds of silence. I went in and added a few millisecond low amplitude blip right at the end of the period of silence, which is inaudible. That worked fine, but I was wondering if I was doing something incorrectly. I'd rather not have to go in and add blips to the end of each track.

Randy

[steve]

At the end of the track is a section of audio and then 5 seconds of silence.

Is it "real" silence - a flat blue line (like the end of track 1 below), or "empty space" (like the end of track 2 below)?

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[rcbrust]

Steve, that's exactly what it was. Thank you.

Randy