# Fade-out or End: how do you like your songs?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fade-out-or-end-how-do-you-like-your-songs/432652>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 7, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fade-out-or-end-how-do-you-like-your-songs/432652 "2008-01-07T22:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fade-out-or-end-how-do-you-like-your-songs/432652/41 "2008-01-09T06:10:48Z")

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I don’t care one way or the other, as long as all of the “fade” contains actual sound. I hate songs that go on at the end with silence for several seconds. More than 2 seconds, I clip the MP3 to shorten it. Ditto for beginning with silence.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fade-out-or-end-how-do-you-like-your-songs/432652/42 "2008-01-09T15:21:03Z")

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[QUOTE=elfkin477]  
I don’t care one way or the other, as long as all of the “fade” contains actual sound. I hate songs that go on at the end with silence for several seconds. More than 2 seconds, I clip the MP3 to shorten it.  
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iTunes does that automatically, and I just loathe it. It can really screw up the feeling of a song when they make it end abruptly and slam into the beginning of the next track.

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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fade-out-or-end-how-do-you-like-your-songs/432652/43 "2008-01-09T16:02:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Marley23]  
iTunes does that automatically, and I just loathe it. It can really screw up the feeling of a song when they make it end abruptly and slam into the beginning of the next track.  
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iTunes never has for me, I get the full songs played down to the last data bit…there is probably a setting to control that (though I can’t hunt for it now).

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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fade-out-or-end-how-do-you-like-your-songs/432652/44 "2008-01-10T05:47:24Z")

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[QUOTE=GargoyleWB]  
iTunes never has for me, I get the full songs played down to the last data bit…there is probably a setting to control that (though I can’t hunt for it now).  
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I believe that’s the “Crossfade playback” in the Playback tab in the preferences.

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