Q&A: Making iTunes Ignore the Gap I enjoy listening to opera on my iPhone, but the Music app treats the parts of an opera recording as if they were "songs." Because of this, there is always a gap between the tracks of an opera CD. Is there a way to defeat this feature so that an entire act of an opera is played back seamlessly? If you are using recent versions of the iTunes software and your iPhone's iOS software, you should be able to use Apple's "gapless playback" feature to play the opera through without those annoying seconds of silence scattered throughout. In iTunes, locate the name of an opera CD that you would like to adjust. Click on the album's name in the iTunes window and then press Control-I (Command-I on a Mac) and confirm that you would like to edit multiple items at once. In the Multiple Item Information box, click the Options tab, put a check in the box next to "Gapless album" and make sure Yes is selected from the menu. Click O.K. when finished. You can also select a specific song for the gapless treatment by clicking on a title, pressing Control-I/Command-I and clicking the Options tab. Put a check in the box next to "Part of a gapless album" and click the O.K. button. Once you have adjusted the gapless settings, sync the iPhone with the iTunes to update the music collection on the phone. Apple has more information about gapless playback on its site. An unofficial online guide called "Taming iTunes for Classical Music" has other helpful hints for fans of opera and orchestral music.