export loop to mp3 problem

[audioluche]

Hi,

I am working on a 40 seconds loop for a website and they want it im mp3 format. My loop play's flawlessly in Pro Tolls (.wav) but when i try to export it to mp3 in Logic, itunes or audacity, i always get some silence at the begining of the file.
I've done a search here and found a little application for trimming mp3 (MP3 trimmer). It's trimming the beginning of the loop but the silence is still there.

Exporting loops to MP3 is not something i do often so i would like to know if there is a way to get rid of this silence or if there is a better compressed format than MP3 that would do the job.

by the way, i dont have the mp3 export option in pro tools, maybe it would export it better than logic? Or is it always like this with mp3 export?

Thank you!

Luc

[tj_davies]

MP3s need to be rounded, that's how the silence happens. When we work for Internet, it is generally for Flash. And in this case, it is better to deliver *.wav or *.aif and let Flash do the mp3 convertion. That way the loop will play fine as well.

Hope this helps,
Timothy

[audioluche]

Thanks a lot Timothy!

Seems like i lost a lot of time trying to do something i did not have to...
I appreciate you help on this.

Luc