I just installed the mp3 player and it seems to work just fine.
I do have a question, though.
When playing from an mp3 disc there is a pause between each track. This is very noticable on live recordings where there should be no gaps between tracks at all. The same disc(s) when played on any of my computers do not have the gaps.
Is this normal? Is there a fix for it?
Thanks.

That is actually a two-part question. Firstly, some burning software gives you the option of whether to insert gaps between tracks or run them together, but I think what you're observing is a function of the way that the RX-8's MP3 player works. It doesn't seem to have any read-ahead functionality - it doesn't start to read the next track until the current one has ended, which means there will always be a gap between tracks. Yes, it's annoying on live and concept albums, but I don't believe there's any way around it.

Originally posted by eccles
That is actually a two-part question. Firstly, some burning software gives you the option of whether to insert gaps between tracks or run them together, but I think what you're observing is a function of the way that the RX-8's MP3 player works. It doesn't seem to have any read-ahead functionality - it doesn't start to read the next track until the current one has ended, which means there will always be a gap between tracks. Yes, it's annoying on live and concept albums, but I don't believe there's any way around it. Thanks for the answer.Yes, I know about the gaps that can be inserted by the burning software, and I know that I am not inserting tham -- after all, no gaps are present when I play the disc on my computers.
It's a small annoyance, and I am glad to know that it doesn't mean that there's something wrong with my new mp3 player!

One way to avoid the gap is to mash the tracks into one continuous mp3. You lose the indexing, but gain continuity.

Steve Miller Band: Threshold > Jet Airliner, for example. Or burn the entire album as one file. (And if you really want indexing as well, mp3s give you plenty of room to burn a second copy with individual songs in your very next folder.)

Originally posted by HIX8
One way to avoid the gap is to mash the tracks into one continuous mp3. You lose the indexing, but gain continuity.

That had occurred to me -- thanks for reminding me of it. Most of my live concert recordings are originally all one big wav file, so encoding it as one big mp3 shouldn't be difficult -- just time-consuming.;)

Or burn the entire album as one file. (And if you really want indexing as well, mp3s give you plenty of room to burn a second copy with individual songs in your very next folder.) That's an option I hadn't considered. Thanks again.