well, if I recall correctly, josh managed to add a function/script/something in the banjo tooie set to, in a hacky sort of way, force the music to play without delay (which, having gone through nearly all of the sets, I can say that is very very common to have a ~100ms delay, so whether it actually should be fixed or not I don't know), so he may be the person to ask if you'd like them to not have opening silence and such.
I inspected the coding that he used in the newest set before. I could be wrong, but it looks like he may have built a lookup table of all the data he was using, and initialized the songs with this data, so that it was using a number reference to lookup the data, instead of just adjusting the channel data code or otherwise forcing it to use the specified channels and separately choosing the song to play back.