>I wonder, if one downloaded some tracks from a PJ Harvey record,
>like Is This Desire or Uh Huh Her, whether the pauses built into the
>CD are present in the iTunrs tracks. They're very much part of the
>sequencing of the record.
Burning cds you can choose how long the gap is. I've heard people complain that you can't get rid of the gap between songs on an ipod but I don't know about that.
Your comment on "sequencing of the record" reminded me of something though. Even if the artist has ideas about gaps and sequencing and all, does it matter *that* much?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_Banquet
>In August 2002, ABKCO Records reissued Beggars Banquet as a newly
>remastered LP and SACD/CD hybrid disk. This release corrected an
>important flaw in the original album by restoring each song to its
>proper, slightly faster speed. Due to an error in the mastering,
>Beggars Banquet was heard for over thirty years at a slower speed
>than it was recorded. This had the effect of altering not only the
>tempo of each song, but the song's key as well. These differences
>were subtle but important, and the remastered version is about 30
>seconds shorter than the original release.