topic Re: Silent track in Content Questions

Silent track

IB18 — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:37:04 GMT

Hi People,

Somebody knows of a silent track of a few seconds to use in a playlist between the tracks?

Thanks!

Re: Silent track

jsannn — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:25:25 GMT

Hi @IB18

Here is a full playlist of silent tracks with different durations, chose what you want 🙂

https://open.spotify.com/user/buzzfeed/playlist/0MrWndPwlGqGr4VzjoIbU3?si=hI89_NPIQw-3HNQUvdvspA

Re: Silent track

Ryanx0r — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 10:43:09 GMT

Hey there,

Just wondering what your thought process is in having "silence" between each track?

Wouldn't that negatively affect the playlist, because people want to have some kind of a flow when listening?

Grts,

Re: Silent track

wjacquies — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 22:26:25 GMT

I make use of the silent tracks to create breaks between songs for my POUND Fit classes.

I agree with you about a flow for listening but for my class setting the silent tracks are perfect.

Re: Silent track

ghostfood — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:38:28 GMT

I've been using this 11 second short Silent Track which comes with its own avatar 🙂

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1fbo6ce8Pg6ZPWlpE3OkfQ

Really useful in my playlists of UK chart hits year by year (http://ghostfood.uk/music/#ukcharthits) because when a track isn't available (even as unplayable) I use this as a placeholder to indicate there should be a track at that point in the playlist (they are arranged in order of when the track first entered the chart chronologically). That said, 11 seconds is probably a bit too long though as these playlists contain hundreds or even over a thousand tracks and that can also result in a few hundred instances of the silent track in one playlist (the ultimate goal being to eliminate all of these by having all 'hit' songs on the service).

Re: Silent track

Microstriker — Sun, 05 May 2019 08:16:15 GMT

I've had a problem using these silent tracks: instead of hearing a silence I hear a fairly loud blast of white-noise. This is not the case when I listen through a Sonos speaker, but it is when I listen on my phone (through headphones) or on my laptop through the laptop's speakers.

This makes the silent tracks unuseable for me, because I listen through headphones a good bit of the time.

I would like to use very brief silent tracks (1 to 4 seconds) to introduce space between songs when the first song ends very abruptly, and I want there to be a slight pause before going into the next song.

Re: Silent track

northforkinv — Fri, 17 May 2019 14:26:16 GMT

i couldn't find this playlist so it wasn't helpful. however i found an "album" by mike vargas called sometimes which has several silent tracks of varying length of time and an applause track for after you finish your workout!

https://open.spotify.com/album/76JVHCl4BDJpEHQzvE5Hkf?si=oMYPgbpaTP64kmLjYAH5-Q

Re: Silent track

LLR — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 06:28:31 GMT

Try I Told U Once by Broken Heroes. Lots of silent tracks there of different lengths and no white noise.

Re: Silent track

leorc — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:57:56 GMT

@jsann As others have said, some of those tracks seem to have very audible noise. (Maybe because of Spotify trying to match audio levels?)

Here's a playlist of tracks which (as of the time I write this!) seem to be truly silent, ordered by increasing length. (I haven't checked closely, so AFAIK it's possible there's something extremely quiet on one or more of them which I haven't spotted. Thanks to others on this thread for help in finding tracks.)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4fN5YP4n8aGCSS4j3MQoeo?si=UjzLKxaETqW-t9If6Jzk9w

That list above includes no more than one track for each duration in seconds. Here's a variant list including all the duplicates I took out of the main playlist. (Again it's possible that they may not be absolutely perfect duplicates.) If some tracks on the main list disappear from Spotify you may be able to find something of the same length on the full list.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1AhFfwLJMipuJQthnqq0ix?si=uS3yP3jtTJmUjMC2M9VJiQ

If something seems wrong or a silent track seems missing, please tell me.

UPDATE: well, that was weird. The full list now appears to contain a completely different list of songs, none of which are silent? Oh well, I'll just have to make it private now and maybe try to fix it later.