<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV class=plainMail>I just found that if I export to stereo, it works fine. Any idea why a mono file would skip the first 1.5 sec, but not when played by <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1246170903_0 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Audacity</SPAN>? </DIV></td></tr></table><br>