On some of George's solo albums (mainly Cloud Nine, Living In The Material World, and Dark Horse) a lot of tracks have a silence at the beginning? Like a three or four second silence, it's weird. I'm wondering if that was intended or if I just got a bad download...

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On some of George's solo albums (mainly Cloud Nine, Living In The Material World, and Dark Horse) a lot of tracks have a silence at the beginning? Like a three or four second silence, it's weird. I'm wondering if that was intended or if I just got a bad download...

If they're mp3's that you downloaded I can understand it. If you put a set of mp3's together you get an extra few seconds gap between tracks. It's actually part of the file. The only way to get round this is to edit each mp3, and then join the whole lot together as one file.

Oh I don't really mind it, I just find it odd because, for example, on "Got My Mind Set On You", the song starts with a 3 second silence and then the music starts, but on other tracks (some of George's, all of John's), the song just starts automatically. So I'm still not sure if it's meant to be like this, or if it's just the download. If anyone who has Cloud Nine or the other ones I mentioned can rip the CD to their computer, and tell me if the silence is there, it'd be great.  

If you use iTunes to listen to your mp3' on your computer, you can set it so that the tracks overlap. Then you won't have the gaps.

Can anyone rip their Cloud Nine or Living In The Material World CDs to their computers and see if the silence is there? I want to know if it's an error in the file or if it's meant to be there. Thanks!  

Hi, Waspinators. Well, I just ripped my entire Cloud Nine CD on my computer, and the 2/3-silent second between songs are at the end of every track.  

So when you listen to "Got My Mind Set On You", you hear an almost 3 second silence, then the drums start?

Yes I have OCD, just bear with me.  

Did you ever consider that most records have gaps of silence between songs?

This is true, but when I listen to an individual track on any other album, like John's, The Beatles', or any random album, the track starts as soon as I press play, but on some of George's, there's a short silence (about 1 to 3 seconds) then the track starts. Sometimes I can hear a tiny bit of the track before it fading away (on Got My Mind Set On You, for example), almost as if George was trying to link the tracks together.

It's not really the silence that I mind, I just want to have the tracks how they officially are (and I don't have any money to buy the actual CDs  )