Add silence to start of Album playback

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(17-07-2020 13:11)enjdee Wrote:  The idea of adding a track 0 makes sense, so it doesn't affect the integrity of the music tracks - I did try something like that a while ago, but couldn't get it to work at the time (I didn't have much time to play, however, so will have another go).

I just tried it and it does work, but MinimServer doesn't pass a tracknumber of 0 to the control point so you have to decide how you'd like it to look.

To create a stereo (to make it Red Book compliant) track consisting of just silence in Audacity just do:
Generate > Silence (set how long you want the silence to be)
Select > All
Edit > Duplicate
Click the drop-down on the top of the first track labelled 'Audio Track' and choose 'Make Stereo Track'
Export > 'Export Audio' in the file format you require

Then copy all the tags from another track in the album (removing any the aren't applicable), change tracknumber to 0 , title to '0.' plus anything else you might want in the display for that track.

Before I do a full music backup I run a CUETools (using AccurateRip) verify pass across my library to make sure nothing has been corrupted, so for these albums it's best to create a .CUE file excluding track 0 so CUETools can do its thing (it prioritises .CUE over the files themselves).

It's not elegant, but it'll work :-)