[Electronic M]

There is a three way trade off...Either have long dead spots (which can make one think the tape has been eaten), put songs on two tracks (which ticks off people who don't want their song interrupted) which is not so bad if there is no fade and your track change mech. is close to the recording co's, or shuffle the track order of the album to eliminate the other two (which may also bother some).

Occasionally there seems to be no trade off as an artist planned song run times to split the track list easily into four equal parts.