All Audio Only Tracks Fade Out At the End

[HalNineThousand]

I posted this in the Mac section, but have had no responses after over 48 hours and I also suspect this is not a Mac specific issue.

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]

So has nobody else experienced this, or is this something with an answer so simple I'm just a fool for not seeing the setting to change? Or should I be asking in another forum?

[bazra]

I experience this using Win Xp and Vista on all my mp3 files. I would say the first and last quarter second of every file is cut/faded. I can't find anything relating to this anywhere in the docs or the forums, or any setting to turn it off. Any advice for us out there?

[ikonomov]

Same issue here, playing a music file that has content at the very beginning and end gets faded out. The way the audio is being handled by the player is a bit of a MAGIC, considering all the audio effects that exist inside the settings. Probably nobody but the creators understand the use and function for them, and it's my guess that lots of them introduce unwanted artifacts, and this fading that happens is just probably a result of all those effects. Simplicity is not part of the vocabulary for this player, it seems, and maybe it makes sense, considering all the functions that users must expect from a popular player like VLC.

[ikonomov]

Issue fixed in 2.1.2!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Thanks for the report.