WarpMyMind

You can just download Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) and cut out the introduction, if you don't like it. It's not too hard a program to figure out....

There's also mp3DirectCut, from http://mpesch3.de1.cc/mp3dc.html . The advantage to using it is that it can edit an mp3 without having to decompress and recompress it.

If anything, I find the announcement thing helpful to kill time so I can be in a suitable physical position to go into trance by the time the induction actually begins.

Agreed; all files need something non-induction at the start to help the person settle down a bit. After all, as there is no real hypnotist to chat with, you won't have established rapport and entered a natural relaxed position already.

That said though, I had always wondered what the point of a description of the file you already downloaded was. Guess now I know.

It's one thing to have a file with intentionally unknown effects (e.g. the Trick/Treat files), it's quite another to mislead people as to what the file does. I'm sure if EMG did that he'd lose a massive proportion of visitors to the site, if not the vast majority.