I'm sure everybody has at least one album with a stupid filler track at the end.  If you don't know what I'm talking about, these usually have a song for the first few minutes.  After that it is silent for say 5 minutes and then random noises and other stupid **** might play for a while.  I don't know what the purpose of these are, other than to **** me off, but they **** me off.  They wreck dynamic play by inserting long gaps or by making you listen to the random garbage.

So why not delete it?  Well, usually there is a decent song for the first few minutes.  Or maybe you just want to retain the complete album digitally.

So, perhaps some kind of "filler track" tag could be added to either skip the song when in a certain mode.  Or a song could be tagged to stop playing after a certain duration.

What do you think?  And why do these annoying songs exist?

They exist because artists think they're being clever and creative... when, in fact, they're being silly and childish

First track of Queens of the Stoneage - "Songs for the Deaf" is similar.

It's probably easier to use smart playlists and manually exclude those tracks, or use an audio editor (like mp3trim for windows? Not sure what equiv. there is for linux) to remove the ****, thus destroying the so-called "integrity" of the track, and making your listening experience so much more pleasurable!

It's probably easier to use smart playlists and manually exclude those tracks, or use an audio editor (like mp3trim for windows? Not sure what equiv. there is for linux) to remove the ****

There's a CLI app mp3splt that splits MP3s (but ruins the tags ). If you have the CD, you can rip a lossless version, load it up into audacity or other editor, delete the **** and then compress the result to MP3/Ogg (or leave it as lossless FLAC )

Hmm... Fire up [url=http://[http://audacity.sourceforge.net]Audacity[/url], cut the silence, live happy.

Problem is, that you need to re-encode the mp3 after editing it with Audacity (correct me if I'm wrong), which lowers the sound quality. I'd go as far and get the windows program "mp3directcut" and run it with wine to edit the mp3s.

There are also some mp3 cutters for Linux (not sure if they just decode-reencode though), e.g., http://www.puchalla-online.de/cutmp3.html

I googled a bit and found out that the mp3splt from some posts above can also cut without re-encoding ( http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_page/home.php ) - haven't tested it yet, though.

Ah, you're right, the standard Audacity behaviour would be to re-encode. Sorry for the misleading hint.