Ernie,

Are you attempting to purchase a new CD player or scrounging around for something hidden away? Most of the players that I've used will honor the current state for a track cue -- if the unit is currently paused, it will be paused after seeking the track. However, there was a problem with cuing accuracy on early units. (Think about seeking up or down and discovering a frame that indicates second zero -- are you at the beginning, end or middle of the second zero frame and should the machine take the time to work this out? And, it's tricky to maintain head position and focus at a point on a spinning disc) [further, are we working in a zero or one origin music universe?] This is why many commercial CD's have a blank second or two at the beginning of each track. If you want DJ cuing accuracy, you'll probably need a DJ type unit that allows offline cuing. (and probably has a cache of ar least a few seconds -- impractical, given the price of RAM and processing power in 1982)