Nowadays, many online and offline music players apply a fade in to the tracks that they play, which cannot be disabled. This causes the very beginning of your audio to be lost. Currently the workaround is to displace the contents of your time-line one or two bars to the right, depending on tempo, so that a bit of silence will be created at the track's start. It would be great if we didn't need to touch the time-line and an option on the "Publish" dialogue would allow us to insert silence. To be safe, the option could be designed to accept just a few reasonable values, from 1 to 3 or 4 seconds only.
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4 SECONDS IS A LIFETIME!
Lol, I'm sorry... but I'm not familiar with this being an issue. If it is, though, I'm always in favour of advocating for making it an option rather than an obligation.
For people who also like to use synths for sound design (for games, bits, and whatnot) adding silence to the start of a track takes away from the flow of testing.
This would definitely be just an option on the "Publish" dialogue, which could default to 0 (no silence). It wouldn't affect normal playback in the app at all. I export my music to Soundcloud and also play it locally on my phone. Both players always fade in at the start, removing the very beginning of the song. I find this extremely frustrating. As I said above, many of us just move the whole time-line one bar to the right to create a short silence at the start of the track. But I don't like to touch the whole time-line once the arrangement is finished. It's not an elegant solution. Therefore my idea.
Not in favor. That's like fixing a broken player by the media. I wouldn't be surprised if said players add a silence removal (crop) in future.
I get the point. But I wouldn't qualify those players as "broken" since that seems a deliberate feature, similar to loudness normalisation. I have to say that since I made this request, I've experienced those fades less and less. Maybe there was negative feedback by users. So we can forget about this.
I've had a few players that do this cross-fading. It's the first thing I switch off because it breaks lots of songs and audio book.