noise at the end of a track

I ripped a music CD with EAC to a FLAC file, and right at the end of
one track there's a kind of staticky pop.
The same thing happened when I imported it with iTunes in .wav format.
But it doesn't happen when I play the CD directly.
The staticky pop doesn't seem to be in the audio, because I used
Audacity to trim off the last couple seconds of the track, and it's
still there.
Apparently, from googling, the pop comes from a tag (?) with metadata,
that is being misread as part of the audio.
I've been using Windows Media Player to play sound files -  generally,
it does very well.
Can EAC be set to rip the CD without including this tag or whatever it is?
Or could I maybe eliminate it in Audacity?
Laura