Cannot remove 0.1 sec trailing silence

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TommyWylie
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Cannot remove 0.1 sec trailing silence

Post by TommyWylie » Wed May 20, 2015 10:10 pm

I am using Audacity 2.1.0 with Windows 7, and I have been editing mp3 files. In order to maintain a flow of music, I'd like to remove as much as I can of the silence at the start of each track. However, I always seem to have a 0.1 second silence left at the start of the track. If I select the silence and delete it, then export the file, the 0.1 second silence is inexplicably back again in the exported file. Is there a way to override this?
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Re: Cannot remove 0.1 sec trailing silence

Post by steve » Wed May 20, 2015 10:57 pm

TommyWylie wrote:If I select the silence and delete it, then export the file, the 0.1 second silence is inexplicably back again in the exported file. Is there a way to override this?
No. It's a limitation of the MP3 format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Design_limitations
"Encoder/decoder overall delay is not defined, which means there is no official provision for gapless playback"

Try using another format such as WAV, FLAC or Ogg.
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