DanielTheGreat wrote: 
> Yes, I too had concluded that the sleep function, even for 'at end of
> song', was simply time-based.
> 
> But no, just adding a second would not be a satisfactory fix.  If the
> following track was ripped from a live album, and started immediately
> with remnant applause from the previous track (on the CD; not in my
> playlist, which is shuffled), then the extra second of audio is going to
> play a brief but abrupt burst of applause, which I would find a very
> unpleasant way to end a soothing song before sleeping. 
> 
> We need a different way to fix the issue.  I suggested one some years
> ago on this forum, but was laughed out of the house.  Essentially it
> involved maintaining two 'pointers' into the current playlist: 'now
> playing' and 'next to play'.  When 'sleep at end of song' was activated,
> and the current song came to an end (i.e. LMS went into stop mode), both
> pointers would be incremented by 1 and stored.  So when PLAY is next
> pressed, it will start from the new 'now playing' track, which is the
> one following the one that played immediately prior to sleeping.
> 
> Just one idea;  I'm sure the clever programmers maintaining LMS can come
> up with others.There would not not be a loud burst of noise at the beginning 
> of the
next track as by then the volume has faded to zero.

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