I am firmly in the "track banter separately please" camp.
Maybe the bands I tape are too talkative, but I would much rather listen to everything once, and if it gets to live on in my archive, I toss the complete recording on the NAS and the songs only on my iPhone, life is too short and my listening opportunities too few to listen to intro and stories ad nauseum.
I track with all but the briefest intros as separate tracks, if anybody wants to listen straight through, your device will probably do that pretty easily.
Dave
I am sure in a civilized forum we can all agree that my way is right