good poll, this is a pet peeve of mine, when I fast forward to a particular track I want to hear ***that*** track not fifteen seconds of yahoos yelling out their request and then ***that*** track; the worst example of this is Dave Matthews Band shows, it seems like most of the live DMB shows I get have a minute, or two minutes if you can believe it, of just general crowd noise to begin the recording before Dave greets the crowd, which makes me wonder why the hell would anyone track a recording this way? its just ridiculous and a complete wast of the listeners time to have to labor through that white noise, other than perhaps introducing the listener to "that" nights venue ambience and personality, which is crazy and simply a nuisance, just keep it simple and track when the number actually begins gets my vote on the tracking issue