If your tracks have not been encoded as gapless playback, then you'll get this short pause. iTunes supports gapless playback. But I'm not sure if WMP does. Tom Hesley -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Carlson Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:24 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Windows Media Player Compression Not sure it's compression that's the problem. Compression's is a way to bring up the total volume of a musical track so that the low and high volume levels are closer together. If you're referring to the bit rate then I think you need to stick with 16-bit and 44.1kHz sample rate to burn an audio CD correctly. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: doug brown <mailto:dougstir@xxxxxxx> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dougstir@xxxxxxx <mailto:Dougstir@xxxxxxx%20Brown> Brown Sent: February 05, 2009 7:54 AM Subject: Windows Media Player Compression Hello Lists, I hope someone out there can help me on adjusting the compression on Windows Media Player. When i burn a c d in Windows Media Player, there some songs that are connected to the next track, or live recordings, and the music goes blank for a second, then comes back. I hope to find if the compression is the problem, and what the compression number should be. I hope to hear from someone soon. Doug Brown dougstir@xxxxxxx