Joining Tracks whithin itunes.

You can join cd tracks before you import them but you cant once there in itunes or not from a cd. Why?
pc Windows XP Pro

The process of compression to MP3 or AAC adds a blank space to the beginning or end of the file itself. This is sometimes called "encoder gap". If this encoder gap is not accounted for, then combining two compressed files together (even if they're at the same bitrate and such) will still leave a tiny audible gap in the file.
iTunes does not have any support for true gapless playback, and so it would be unable to correct for that encoder gap. Even if it did understand gapless, combining the streams like that is problematic for many other reasons. The only real way to do it is to re-encode them both, which causes a quality loss, so it's a bad idea to begin with.
Whereas joining CD tracks is mainly a matter of ripping them together into one track, which is easy because a "track" is just a marker, it's not an actual change in the datastream.
Suffice it to say that there are technical reasons behind it, and the overriding reason is iTunes lack of proper gapless support.

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From this post <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4567334&#4567334> I understand that in order for iTunes to see my CD it needs to be in Standard format. (In my case the files are MP3s and a Windows Executable.... On my windows machine it auto-launched MusicMatch.)
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I've found a work-around. It's not exactly a zippy process, but in the end I did end up with a conjoined bookmarkable AAC file rather than 43 separate MP3s.
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The FAQ at aldoblog.com gave me my next ray of hope.
<http://aldoblog.com/audiobooks/itunes/frequently-asked-questions/#q5>
Here I found a link to Doug Adam's "Join Together" which can stitch together tracks after they've been imported into iTunes.
<http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts07.php?page=1#jointogether>
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1) Insert disk (obviously)
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Molly Weasley wrote:
Just found it: you need to highlight the column on the farthest left before the "Join Tracks' Will show up.. That's the column to the left of name.
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