a smart method to detect and jump over the offending silence is the only way to be sure of not affecting the beat
I'd like to see something which did this. The problem is that, because of the lossy way MP3s are encoded, sometimes the extra bits of silent data aren't perfectly silent.
There's an id3v2 field, ETCO, that allows you to specify the intro and outro silence transition times.
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Bitt Faulk