I was reading this list of complaints about the iTunes update, and while I don’t really have an opinion on any of the new features (and I wonder if getting that upset about Party Shuffle is a good sign), there’s something even more puzzling. I don’t understand the zero gap thing at all. It’s not that I disagree, it’s that I think I’m missing what the problem is supposed to be. I’ve got a handful of albums I ripped (with iTunes) that have tracks without gaps between them, and they were ripped that way - as separate tracks without any silence at the beginning or end. There isn’t a gap artifically included in the mp3 itself, and iTunes doesn’t insert one when you’re playing unless you tell it to (I just tried it). And if you’re burning a CD, you can specify how long the gap should be or whether there should be one at all. So what’s the problem? It did, in fact, just work. If you do have something that you might want ripped as one long track - like, say, a recording of somebody’s mixed set - why shouldn’t you have the option of doing so?