Exported audio has silence at the end

[Dr.Gerry]

This is probably a very simple question.....unfortunately I am a very simple guy, so the answer to this question has eluded me so far!

I am creating a simple single chord drone that I want to have playing constantly while I practice my scales on the guitar. I have created a drone that plays as a continuous tone within RC, but when I export it, it always has a bit of silence at the end, so when I play the wav file in media player, and set it to loop I get a few seconds of the tone, then about half a second or so of silence before it starts again.

I don't know why the silence is at the end. As I said, when I play the composition in RC it just plays as a constant unbroken tone. Not quite sure what I am doing wrong.

[musicdevelopments]

Hello Dr.Gerry,

welcome to this forum!
What you expect sounds logical, but at the end of the audio file there will always be a few seconds reserved for the decay of the last sound. Playback cannot simply be stopped abruptly without letting the sounds fade out. So that is the reason. As a solution, you can load the audio into Audacity and remove the extra seconds from the end.

Thanks,
Attila

[Dr.Gerry]

Thanks Attila. I will give that a try.