I wonder what the problem is with my Sony D-CJ01 mp3 CD-R player. A disk of MP3s that was made by someone else works fine but the mp3s on the disk that I made are all split into chunks which means that after about 10 seconds there is a pause as it loads the next track. Listening to an album with with pauses like this is guaranteed to drive you nuts.
On Amazon reviews of the Sony Portable CD/MP3 Player (D-CJ500) An electronics fan from Fiji describes a similar problem: When burning CD's be careful to use the right burning format, also, make sure to do it in disk at once, otherwise it will split each song into 5, but if it's done right, it works flawlessly, I've never had a problem with it.
I think the problem might be because I created my CD with DirectCD, where you write to the CD player as drive but I'm mystified as to why it split the tracks into little chunks..
Later: that was the problem. If you make a CD in the standard way it works fine. I was just unlucky that I tried DirectCD first and that it worked in such a weird way. It wouldn't have been so confusing if it hadn't worked at all!!