SanDisk 1 GB MP3 Player Silver

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Summary: Seems ok, but the case is pretty bad.
Review: As a player, this thing has decent features and seems to sound fine. I haven't used it much yet so I may need to edit this if I have any problems with it after using it for a few weeks. The main thing that I don't like about it is that there is no way to clip it to your clothes unless you're wearing a belt or the included armband because the case has a loop rather than a clip (see user pictures). The case is also pretty cheap. It seems like it's made of a very thick plastic bag or something. I'm sure it's fine as far as not tearing, but it just seems a little crappy. My other player (Creative Muvo Micro) has a much better case that has a belt clip so you can attach it to a belt, the armband or your shirt/shorts or anything else. It's also smaller. The Sandisk player is pretty small, but it has a bulge on the back where the battery goes (see user pictures again). Not a big deal though. This player is pretty much the same in every way to the Creative Muvo player except for three things: The Muvo has line in recording so you can use an external microphone or record from your stereo, the Muvo is a little smaller, the Muvo as the aformentioned clip. I've been using the Creative Muvo for a while without any problems. Since the Sandisk player just came today, I haven't had a chance to test it much yet. I will post an updated review if I find any problems.

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Summary: Froze i am returning this
Review: Caution buyer beware!!! This mp3 player was great at first but then it Froze. When it did this i couldnt change songs or shut it off, and the music stopped. You have to remove battery to start it going again. I just purchased the 1gb samsung mp3 player because samsung is a trusted brand.

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Summary: FREEZES! DO NOT BUY
Review: I bought this player because of the space and all of the features that you get with the price. However, right out of the box the mp3 player froze on the third song. It also freezes when ever I shuffel foward through the songs quickly. When it freezes I have to actually take out the battery and put it back in to restart the player. This is a huge hassle in the middle of a workout. Yes, this is one of the cheapest 1 gig mp3 players on the market.... but I unfortunatly found out that you get what you pay for. I am returning this to Amazon after one day of use and buying a better, more expensive player.

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Summary: Brief ex-iPod Shuffle User Here: Sandisk mp3 Does the Job!!
Review: I gave my iPod shuffle to my cousin and went out and bought a Sandisk 1 G player. I realized after a few workouts with my Shuffle that I really just want to skip to a song sometimes for certain routines in my workout and I just cannot memorize a 100-200 song playlist. You probably can't either. I also needed a flash mp3 player for battery life and durability (chip based, not hard drive so no moving parts).

I narrowed my own picks down to a Nike mp3 player, Rio Forge, and Sandisk. I liked that Rio has an expandable slot, but I chose Sandisk because I trust the brand with my memory cards, and in this case it was by far the best price with an external battery. I understand that Sandisk is the only maker that uses its on NAND memory chips, so the quality is usually (although as with everything else in life, not 100%) very very good. My USB, memory cards, and readers have never failed me.

I don't know what these guys are talking about regarding it "freezing". The controls are a bit cumbersome at first, but actually more intuitive than the iPod. You'll get it very soon even without an instruction manual.

So far, I'm still using the battery that came with it. The sound quality is more than good although if you want to get fancy just buy new earphones. The plastic casing for working out is kinda flimsy but it does the job.

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Summary: Locked up, returned unit!
Review: I just spent several frustrating hours trying to make this Sandisk unit useable. I initially just tried to copy some MP3's to the unit. They copied quickly over USB 2.0, which was great. As I was forwarding through my songs the unit just locks up. I then converted a new batch of songs to WMA at 96 kbps. Formatted the unit using the Sandisk utility, copied over my WMA's. Same problem, certain songs on the player just locked up the unit. It is impossible to identify which ones were the culprits (it locks up before the name displays). In addition, I noticed with WMA's the Sandisk ignores the Id3 tags (they were all there when I hook it back up to the computer). It does not seem to be a file naming issue or a corrupt file issue. This stuff should just work! It is nothing more than a flash drive, how hard can it be to write a simple player to access it. There was a newer firmware at the Sandisk site but this did not correct the problem. Maybe I got a bad one, but hey, I am not waiting a week for a replacement so I can go through this again. I am going to wait for the Ipod Shuffle. My friends with Ipods never have to put up with this kind of issue.

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Summary: So Far.... A Little Good Machine
Review: I received my player yesterday from Amazon. Inserted the battery and attached the player to the computer using the USB cable (battery and cable included). Transferred the music files to the player using Windows Explorer and got it up and running in no time. No software installed. So far, I love it. Easy to transfer files and easy to operate. The sound is good too. The only bad thing that I could find about the player is that the earphone chord is too short and the earphones itself fits too tightly in my ears. Other than that, it's a good little machine.



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Summary: Returned Two SanDisk 1GB Players
Review: I returned the first player because the device periodically "froze" while playing, i.e., the buttons and joystick wouldn't work and music stopped. Had to remove the battery to get it working again. The same thing occurred with the second player plus its display would go blank then show random letters and numbers while scrolling between folders.



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Summary: Almost Perfect
Review: I've been using this for two months and I love just about everything about it: great sound, easy to carry around, excellent FM reception.

I just have three beefs about it:

1. tiny controls: I have big fingers and sometimes when I'm in the middle of a long track or mix and try to adjust the volume, I inadvertently go to the next or previous track. Which leads to my next complaint...

2. slow fast-forward: it's only two or three times as fast regular play. I'd like to be able to get to the middle of a long mix in just a few seconds.

3. battery life isn't 15 hours: I generally get about 10 hours on a triple A battery. Not really a complaint, since it's better than the whole IPOD replacement fiasco, but they should at least be honest. Or maybe I'm just listening to my music too loud!

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Summary: Close to perfect, but not quite
Review: I've had several flash MP3 players over the last several years, but this is by far my favorite. As other reviewers have mentioned, sound quality is good (volume level is great), price is excellent and storage capacity is outstanding. Battery life is very good as well. I've not used the radio or voice recorder so I can't comment on them.

So on to my biggest complaints that keeps this from being my ultimate listening device: (1) no support for playlists, so if you want a song to appear in more than one album it has to be copied to every one where you want it to play (I know the capacity is great, but at 2-4 MB per song the memory still disappears rather quickly); (2) no support for playing songs according to genre, which would help alleviate the first shortcoming on my list; (3) no support for MP3 Pro format.

But the complaints are minor compared to its functionality and value for the money. It's still my favorite player that I've owned to date.

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Summary: So far so good...
Review: This is my second mp3 player, I accidentally fried the first one. This time I was looking for something with a little more space, more compact, but yet had good sound quality. I decided to give this one a try and am not regretting it after having it a week. Let me list out the good and perhaps not so good qualities I have encountered so far.

Good
1. great sound quality with both fm tuner and music files
2. plugs right in WinXP without having to install sw taking up space on my HD
3. size...blows me away, I've had key chains bigger than this thing!
4. I don't plan on using the voice recorder that much, but its there. I know other people have complained about hearing static or hiss on playback, but I experimented with mine and have not had such problems.
5. battery life is very nice. I work out approximately 2 hours a day and am still using the same battery after 4 days with 2 bars showing on the battery life indicator.
6. file transferring is easy...drag and drop from your computer to the player

Things to get use to
1. The controls are small and I do have big hands, but I have got the hang of it, and I agree with other reviews that navigation takes a little getting use to, but the manual is a great help. I'd have to say this is my only gripe and its just a small one.
2. The carrying case looks a little cheap, since its plastic, but if you think about it, when you're sweating in the gym, you want something that will protect it, and the player fits tightly into the case so it looks fine.

For the price, I am very pleased with it. It does exactly what I want it to do and its just what I wanted. 1 gb of space is ample for me. I don't need to have my entire music collection on it to enjoy it.