Adding a period of silence between imported files

I have imported a group of mp3 files as an album into my iTunes library. During playback, is there a way to insert a short period of silence (2-3 seconds) at the beginning or end of each file?

Halfway_there,
Audigy SE is just the sound card. You need a Sound editor software to do what you want. Creative's Wavestudio allows you to join tracks (with or without silence in between, .wav format). If you want to overlap tracks (e.g. have music background playing behind the interview), I don't think Wavestudio will do that, but other editors will, for example Roxio Sound Editor (part of the Easy Media Creator suite) which I use. That suite also has Video editing and other apps, if you want just sound editing there are others. Search the internet for Sound editor
Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 09-07-2008 2:0 AM

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