{"id":28838,"date":"2004-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=28838"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"sony-sound-forge-insert-just-tiny-bit-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/sony-sound-forge-insert-just-tiny-bit-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Sony Sound Forge insert just a tiny bit of silence at the beginning and end of a file I&#8217;ve saved as .MP3 when the WAV file of the same file does not have this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is because of the Fraunhofer MP3 codec (the highest quality MP3 encoder\/decoder) has hard-coded into it a &#8216;mute time&#8217; at the beginning and end of the file. This cannot be disabled or changed within the Fraunhofer codec, so there is no workaround within Sound Forge (and any other programs which use this codec). 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