Importing albums with no gaps

A lot of albums these days (particularly dance albums) run as one seamless track - I want to be able to import them as one track, not have gaps between them - How do I do this?

hi Marcus!
here's the relevant itunes help documentation:
To remove the gap of silence that normally occurs between songs, make sure the songs on the CD are sorted by track number in ascending order (click the top of the first column so that it's blue and you see a triangle that points up), then select two or more adjacent songs and choose Advanced > Join CD Tracks.
iTunes imports any joined songs as one track. To change back to importing the songs separately, select the joined songs and choose Advanced > Unjoin CD Tracks.
and if you run into difficulties, this document might also be helpful:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93624
love, b

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1468
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