the below was taken from vista help... rather disappointing ah!

" The Player automatically adds a two-second gap between songs when burning audio CDs to keep the next song from beginning immediately after the end of the previous song. The extra silence gaps included in the music files from the ripped CDs can create long, inconsistent pauses between songs. Since the Player's two-second pause cannot be turned off, the only way to resolve this issue is to use an audio file editor to remove the silence gaps in the song recordings themselves."

its amazing how such a large company could look over such little things. hmm but then again im sure they have a sneaky reason for doing that. cus now im using nero to burn CD's...