The player is at fault and I will be getting a replacement as soon as they arrive into the United States. It turns out that just a few of these players had this problem and I got lucky. At least it will be replaced and in the meantime it does sound very good regardless of the clicks between tracks. It's a good sounding player for an inexpensive player.
Thank you all for your help in this post as it helped me get over it and just arrange a replacement.
Thank you all for your help in this post as it helped me get over it and just arrange a replacement.