burst of noise at start of every track (m4a->mp3)

[paracas]

On all tracks I've converted from .m4a to .mp3 there is a very short (less than half a sec) burst of noise, right at the start of every track. Very annoying! otherwise the converted tracks sound great.

Any suggestions on how to avoid this noise glitch ?

I'm using dMC R13 trial and m4A Rel8 , with default lame encoder settings of VBR , medium quality. I tried Slow encoding but still the same problem.

This is on XP SP2 , on a Pentium4 with 1GB RAM.

thanks for any ideas,
Rob

[paracas]

Re: burst of noise at start of every track (m4a->mp3)

update on this - it seems to only happen with the Nero Showtime player software I was using, so have switched to using another MP3 player ..