Inserting a short delay between tracks at some places when playing

I have a lot of classical music on iTunes, copied from my CD's. In a few places, two successive tracks play with no delay between them: this is very disturbing. How can I add a short delay (a few seconds) between the sounds from two successive tracks ? I am using iTunes 7.0.1, but I noticed the problem already with 6.0.5 and with 7.0 (as far as I remember)
PowerBook G4 15" 1GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi jeanjeener -
You might want to look in the iTunes preferences and select the
playback tab . I have ixnaid the Crossfade Playback selection and
albums now play as I remember them from the vinyl LP days .
You might try that . When I read the suggestion rooted in my own
dissatisfaction in "heel toeing" I recall it took a few days
before I was satisfied it had eliminated the stacked play .
Frederick

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