Tracks Fade Out Early Every Time

[HalNineThousand]

I'm sure this is something that should be able to be taken care of with just a setting somewhere. I've searched the forum, but can't find anything that fits. I'm probably missing an obvious term other than something like "fade out". Also, I'm not sure if this is Mac specific.

I just produced a number of flac files with Audacity that are part of a larger project. I wanted to listen to all the files in VLC so I could change the order, remove tracks that didn't fit, and so on. In other words, I was going to use VLC to edit the order of the tracks and which ones were included. I loaded them all into VLC and arranged them in the order I thought I wanted, then started playing them.

All my tracks fade out so I don't hear the last second or two in them. I've loaded them in other programs and tested then in other programs and I don't get that fade out. I've checked in the preferences and I don't see anything in VLC's preferences that would provide any form of cross fading (I actually saw posts indicating VLC can't do that). I tried setting it to "Repeat One" so it might repeat the track - in case it didn't fade out the last second when there wasn't another track following, but that didn't help. I also tried it with ONLY one file and no repeat, but still had the same problem.

What do I need to do to make sure I can hear the entire flac file when I play it back in VLC?

[HalNineThousand]

Can anyone tell me at least if this is "normal" or if it happens for anyone else?

Even though I've gone through preferences, I was hoping someone could tell me, "Hey, RTFM, here's the setting."

Should I post this in a non-Mac specific area?