MP3 players that skip

[SteveDallas]

Being a hip, with-it kind of guy... umm... OK... well maybe not.. be that as it may, the last two portable CD players I purchased will play MP3 discs, a feature that has become more important for me in the past year or so. There's just one problem: When these players play a traditional audio CD, there is a skip between each track. This is aggravating when I listen to something where the tracks are programmed to flow into each other with no pause. (I am listening to Britten's Albert Herring as I type this, and practically every transition is like this because there are few pauses in the music.) Are all MP3 players like this? Or did I just get cheap ones?

(Note, I'm talking about audio CDs here. I understand there is nothing on a disc of MP3 files to suggest how long a pause there should or should not be between two of the files, but the audio CD standard does encode this information.)