INSPIRED / RED Sainsbury's Micro hi-fi 583-273?

Bought from Sainsbury's, worked fine until I played classical or live cds (any cd with no break between tracks). Machine inserts its own 2 second break - really annoying. Seems like a stupid automatic feature to me but no mention of it in instructions. Also the letters "ESP" flash on the panel but yet again no mention of what this is in instructions. Anyone else solved this? Thanks.