I actually like that he's added the hidden tracks as it's a nice way to end the album but yeah, it means sitting through at least 10 or 12 minutes of silence and it's annoying to do that, when I first looked at the song running time for Mio Fratello on my music collection on iTunes, I thought that it was a mistake and that Mio Fratello had been duplicated 4 times on the one track.
How can Italians not like Il vento, it's his best song yet, at least non-Italian people like it, although it's mostly targeted to the Italian market, it's not looking good for Il vento if Italians don't like it.