GarageBand creating blank space after song.

Here is the screen shot before I export the song:

I'm trying to save just the region under the yellow loop bar. Unfortunately, Garageband is including an additional 4 seconds of silence after the song. Here is a screenshot of my export dialogue:

When I click the "Export" button, the playhead automatically jumps to the right, as seen in the following photo, and additional audio silence is added to the end of the saved song region:

Brian Maiden wrote:

I haven't worked too much with garage band 11 yet, but at first glance it seems to have the same solution as the few previous versions since this completely useless new "feature" was added. In the timeline along the top (where the playhead triangle is located at the top of the red line position marker) there is another triangle cleverly hidden waaaay off to the right. That is the marker for the end of the song. You can reposition it to the true end you want to force the song to stop rather then letting the software guess for you where IT thinks is best.

Thank you very much for trying to help, but if I understand you correctly, I have already tried what you suggest. Looking at the screen shot of my song before saving (see below), one can see I have moved the triangle (that you are referring to) all the way up to the end of the yellow looped-region:

When the program goes through it's routine of exporting the song (converting it to MP3), the triangle, quite inexplicably, bounces a few measures to the right (thereby increasing the duration of the song being saved), and then bounces back to its original position after the song is saved.😮

Upon further research, I came across the following thread, which recommends the exact same solution that Brian Maiden recommended earlier in this thread; namely, to move the 'triangle' in to the desired region length to be saved:

Extra silence at the end of song

As explained above, this function is not working properly on my .

Does Apple monitor these forums, particularly in order to investigate potential bugs residing in their software?

JD321 wrote:

Here is the screen shot before I export the song:

I'm trying to save just the region under the yellow loop bar. Unfortunately, Garageband is including an additional 4 seconds of silence after the song. Here is a screenshot of my export dialogue:

When I click the "Export" button, the playhead automatically jumps to the right, as seen in the following photo, and additional audio silence is added to the end of the saved song region:

"When I click the "Export" button, the playhead automatically jumps to the right,..."

To be quite explicit in explaining the problem at hand, the 'triangle', i.e., the 'End of Project Marker' is what first jumps over to the right (automatically, without my telling it to do so), and then then as the song-saving process ensues, with the conversion to MP3, the 'Playhead triangle' moves from left-to-right, over to the new (and unwanted) location of the temporarily relocated 'End of Project Marker'. After the export process is complete, the 'End of Project Marker' jumps back to the left, where I placed it, directly at the end of the yellow looped region.