ITunes pauses at track #'s imbedded in continuous music, like operas. Fix?

Playing back iTunes tracks whose numbers are imbedded in continuous music, such as in an opera, iTunes adds a gap of silence that can only be partially corrected by turning cross-fade on, and setting the time to zero. Currently, my half-terabyte drive holding over 80,000 tracks is indexing itself, and at the samne time, intertrack perrformance is much worse. Why does iTunes have this fatal flaw?

Have any you tried emailing iTunes store support? I sent them this particular post to them. I think the screenshots of the iTunes store, and then the screenshot of the cell phone itself is good idea.
Did anyone try calling which is the tech support?
United States
1-800-275-2273
mrmet2087, that is surprising how songs that you downloaded three years ago, mysteriously appear wrong on your cell phone. I don't think our cell phones are acting up. It has to be the iOS 8.2 or the iTunes store itself. I deleted iTunes from my home computer, then re downloaded again.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
So now I have the most up to date version of iTunes (12.1.1) on my home computer. But that didn't seem to fix the issue. Did anyone try to upgrade their version of iTunes to see if it fixed the issue?
Anna

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please help!!
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I would like to know if there is a way to program the iPod so that when I’m listening to an album that is supposed to be heard in continuous playback (no pauses between tracks, like in operas, some new age albums and classical music) I can hear it without the brutal one or two second interruption the internal software inserts between tracks.
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What I mean is this. When I listen to my CD on my computer or sound system, there is absolutely no gap or skip between tracks…the music just flows on (example : Alexander by Vangelis, or a Wagner opera). The music is continuous. No skip between tracks.
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iPod Feedback.
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<pre>
property kErrAENoSuchObject:(-1728)
on run
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set thisAlbum to (album of thisFileTrackRef)
set thisName to (name of thisFileTrackRef)
set thisFileTrackInfo to (thisArtist & " > " & thisAlbum & " > " & thisName)
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tell me
display dialog ("Checking file-track #" & i & ": " & ¬
return & return & thisFileTrackInfo) ¬
buttons {"Cancel", "•"} giving up after 2.5
end tell -- me
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try
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else (* Re-signal all other errors *)
error errMsg2 number errNum2
end if
end try
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tell me
display dialog ("Repairing this missing file-track: " & ¬
return & return & thisFileTrackInfo) ¬
buttons {"Cancel", "•"} giving up after 2.5
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end tell -- (application "iTunes")
end run
</pre>
Regards,
--P

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ITunes pauses at track #'s imbedded in continuous music, like operas. Fix?

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