: Ok maybe this is my fault. When I record these here is a few seconds of
: silence at the beginning of each track before the song starts. I am
: trimming this out manually. I do this by magnifying the waveform and
: cutting as soon as any sound is detected. Is this right? if not, then
: everyone is wrong and I've just wasted a lot of time and people's
: bandwidth. :(
That method sounds like it should work to me. Maybe do a test where you leave more of what looks like silence before the waveform appears, or don't do any trimming at all? If you're not sure I'd be happy to listen to one of the raw files that has a few seconds of silence at the beginning (Freedom or Rushing would work). If the first note appears in that one then the problem must have something to do with the trimming process.