I am replying to my own post: iTunes Fade-Out & Fade-In works exactly opposed to what you would think. I first tried (Per Help Menu) to uncheck "Crossfade" & reduce the time to minimum. After trial & error I checked "Crossfade" raised the time to maximum and behold, the previous song slowly fade away & the next song come right in. Now I'm happy. Crossfade is working just as I wanted it to.
I have iTunes 11.1.3, with crossover at the min. the songs have a fade-out of 9 seconds. This is a problem with movies & slide shows. Is there any way to reduce this to 0.0 fade-out ? My System is MacBook Pro 9.0 OX 10 .8.5

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