Silence at Start/End of MP3 Files

[Originally from Synt MD]

"Cool Edit does add a bit of silence to the beginning and ending of MP3 files. Our programmers explained to me that this was because either the 3rd party MP3 codes or Windows ACM codec we used was actually deleting about 1/5 of a second of the file when saving to MP3. So we had to add silence to the file. This way, instead of deleting the user's audio, it deleted the silence. Unfortunately, It was not always deleting the exact amount of audio, so after some testing, we decide to add an x amount of silence to beginning and ending of audio files just before user saves it to MP3. In some cases like yours, it's about
35/100 of a second too much. But with some other files, it's just right. And as mentioned, because of the range of different encoders and decoders out there, it's a fairly common process until someone really standardizes it."

Originally from Synt MD