SanDisk Sansa Clip 2 GB MP3 Player (Black) by SanDisk
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Digital camera reviews of SanDisk Sansa Clip 2 GB MP3 Player (Black)
Digital camera Review: Good Product
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a very good product, for the price.
Beautiful, reliable, and compact.
Digital camera Review: The Best small MP3 player on the market
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me start by saying I own a clip, I also own an ipod shuffle and a creative labs Zen. Hands down - the Clip is my favorite player. The other two will likely end up on ebay.
The clip is ever so slightly larger than the stone, and somewhat larger than the shuffle. However, its not an issue - its still a very miniscule player that you can clip to your shirt while you hit the gym. Its a very small trade off for all the benefits it offers over the other two players.
Heres why you should get a Sansa Clip - point by point.
1 - NO ITUNES! I realize there are other ways of putting music on the shuffle, but none are as simple as drag and drop like a normal flash drive. If you have a giant collection of music (like I do) iTunes is a nightmare. Forcing your customers to use it is a bad idea. Creative labs gets the nod for this too.
2 - Sound quality of the clip appears to be better than the shuffle and the stone. I am using the same set of Bose In-Ear headphones in all three players. If you are going to be using the stock headphones - for the record, creative labs are garbage. They were poorly padded and hurt your ears.
3 - Cost - About $5 more than the Stone, but cheaper than the ipod, the sansa is a good value. The Stone does not come with a built in clip - you have to buy a skin for it, which will eat up the $5 savings you have.
4 - The screen - Its actually handy to have, and the clip's screen is much better than that of the stone - wider, displays more, and its two colors so it looks nicer.
5 - No iTunes required.
6 - The Stone and the Clip both have FM Tuner , while the Apple does not. The Clips interface makes navigating the radio presets easier than the Stone and, at least in my location I get better reception on the stone.
8 - No iTunes!!!!
9 - General responsiveness of the ZEN Stone is lethargic compared to the clip, and shuffle. On the Stone, when you press a command button, there is a noticeable amount of lag between when you press the button and the player actually responds. Even when you press skip to jump a song - there is about a one second delay. This might not sound like much, but it can get annoying when you are hunting around to find that one song you really want to hear.
10 - Battery Life - Again , the Clip takes top honors at 15 hours. iPod shuffle is rated for 12 hours The Clips battery is rated at 15 hours, the Stones is only 9 hours.
11 - Final point I want to make and its a big one. Both the Clip and the Stone use a normal mini-usb connector for connection to PC. Apple chose to brilliantly come up with a proprietary connector to dock / charge the shuffle. That means if you lose it, you're out some scrilla. With the clip and stone using a standard mini-usb, it means you can charge the players / transfer tunes pretty much anywhere there is a computer - at a friends house say, at work - wherever - with no fancy dock / cable required.
12 - No iTunes.
HAnds down, I find the Clip to be the best player. IF being absolutely miniscule as possible is a requirement, the shuffle is the smallest / lightest player of the bunch, but not by much. Other than that, it is inferior to the clip in every way I can think of.
Digital camera Review: You Sweat, It Dies. In as little as 3 days. Avoid at all costs if you think you may sweat
Summary: 1 Stars
Piece of junk. 1st one lasted 61 days, I'm now struggling with tech support delays to get it replaced under the 1 yr warranty. They keep asking me stupid questions like the model # in 0.001 font on the bottom. It's a friggin Clip 4GB silver, they can read the model # when they get it. Bought a 2nd one, it died in only 3 days. That one was returned to Circuit City for refund. I realized the 1st one lasted a little longer since at first I ran with it an armband case. The 2nd one I used the clip only, isn't that why it has a clip??? When it died, I figured out that sweat was the culprit. What kind of mp3 player can't handle a little sweat? Jeez... If you just want a small player for the library or airplane, it's probably great. I guess when I finally get it replaced under warranty, I'll constrain it to air conditioned environments. For exercising,it's useless. And their support is underwhelming to say the least.Digital camera Review: Dead Clip, No Support
Summary: 1 Stars
I liked this at first. Holds lots of music, podcasts, etc., and I liked the radio feature, too. About a month after I bought it, I received a notice about a firmware update, which is usually no big deal. After installing the firmware update, all of a sudden I had a dead Clip. I spent about five hours total on the phone to tech support, sought help through the forums, and on the Sandisk website. I finally got someone to say I'd receive a return authorization (so I could send it in for repair or replacement) but I got nothing. I have a Sansa Connect that I like OK, but this episode has pretty much soured me on buying anything new from Sansa.Digital camera Review: How to get itunes to play on it.
Summary: 4 Stars
We finally got our daughter's itunes playlist on this thing. Now we love it. BUT, getting itunes songs onto it was tricky.
I wish someone would have told us how to do it, so I will share what we learned. Hope it helps.
First, the player is not mac compatible, and it is definitely NOT itunes compatible. We didn't want to subscribe to Rhapsody and repurchase our songs, of course.
The sansa only plays songs that read as unpurchased mp3s. (We authorized our PC to play our itunes songs and that didn't make any difference.)
We got around this by burning our itunes songs onto blank discs as mp3's and then loading them into the PC where the sansa was hooked up. Then it's easy: just drag and drop the songs into the "music" folder of the sansa. They are instantly transferred to the player. Unplug it and enjoy.
Take music you own (purchased or ripped from CDs) and burn it onto blank cd's and load it into the PC and put it on the sansa, which you also own. Legal, just a bit of a pain. This is not about pirating music or anything! My husband's an IP lawyer.
If the above method doesn't work, you can purchase software online to make "virtual" CD's with a "virtual" burner and the songs are saved into a file on your mac, without having to waste time and discs burning actual CD's. Then you just transfer them with a zip drive or whatever from the folder to the data drive to the PC and then onto the player. Piece of cake.
This would definitely work, but the software costs around forty dollars. We didn't buy it, because this is just our daughters player with a few songs on it. We have an ipod that syncs great with itunes for our primary music player. But if you plan to actually put 500 songs on it, you might like the software.
Good luck. You can also google: itunes sansa.
But this is a really cool little player. Everything works great. No problems at all, except for the itunes snafu. That's why the 4 stars.