Add silence to start of Album playback

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I can't think of any nice workarounds for this, but for me personally changing the track itself is the worst of all of them, as it would mean the tracks sector count will increase and therefore the majority of tagging lookup routines will fail e.g. matching to MusicBrainz/Discogs etc., and that AccurateRip verification would fail.

It's a pain, but you could create a new track containing just silence, and always queue it up first before adding any other tracks/albums, or even add a silent track to each album (with a track number of 0). If you were to add a new track to each album you'd need to make sure you didn't include that when matching to MusicBrainz/Discogs, or create a CUE sheet for the album excluding track 0 for verification with AccurateRip.

That being said, I am very particular about my setup, so if none of the drawbacks bother you I'm sure there are programs out there that can add silence to tracks without having to re-rip.