Update Re: Looping problem with Sound Forge 7.0 (and Cool Edit)

["OpBeachGuy" <opbeachguy@hotmail.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "OpBeachGuy" <opbeachguy@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Looping problem with Sound Forge 7.0 (and Cool Edit)


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Lehmann" <hqr@cox.net>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:56 PM
> Subject: RE: Looping problem with Sound Forge 7.0
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chuck Scholtz
>>
>> After I highlight a portion of a .WAV (or MP3) file in SoundForge 7.0 
>and 
>> do
>> a "Trim/Crop" to get the loop just the way I like it, the saved file 
>> always
>> gets a bit of silence inserted at the begining and a slight fade 
>appended 
>> at
>> the end.  I dont want this, and I am trying to get rid of it so I have 
>> the
>> exact file I have edited.  I looked under "preferences" but I cant find 
>> any
>> setting that will get rid of this.  Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> --->I just tried it this way--highlight a portion of the .wav, then 
>drag 
>> to
>> a blank spot to copy that portion.  No gaps--and great zero crossing!
>> Gary
>>
> 
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> I tried what was recommended but it didn't work for me.  I edited the 
>MP3 
> file with a perfect zero-crossing, cropped it, and just tried saving my 
> edited loop with Cool Edit Pro instead and the same phenomenon happens.  
>I 
> zoomed out and measured it with the cursor and approximately 0.200 of 
> silence is inserted at the beginning and 0.133 of silence is appended to 
> the end of the waveform.  Someone please help me figure this out.  Now I 
> am really stumped.
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I made a discovery.  The problem I have described only occurs when editing 
and looping MP3 files. The WAV files I edit are saved exactly as I edit 
them.  I sometimes prefer to use MP3 files due to better file compression. 
So can someone figure out why this is happening only to my MP3 edits?