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Nowadays, it is hard to find MP3 players which use replaceable batteries. I do no enjoy seeing the tiny pictures. Experience told me that electronic devices ofter outlasting the built-in rechargeable batteries. When the batteries are used up, we have to throw it away the whole thing that might have been usable had the batteries been replaced.It is interesting that most MP3 makers try to be "me-too" ipod with tiny screen which to show movie or photos. So this is MP3 player is right for me. Thanks SanDisk for keeping making this useful product.
This MP3 player is excellent for taking on trips because it uses a standard AAA battery. I love that I don't have to recharge it with the USB connected to my computer. This item arrived in it's original packaging therefore like new. Thanks.
Music flew from the player, to and from the computer, first in bitty little WMA formats, and then in wonderous, variable bit rate MP3 files once I realized how horrible these files sounded.The product certainly had flaws. At the time I moved over to the just-released "fat" iPod Nano, which in many respects was a move forward, and in some a move backward.As a cheap, disposable MP3 player running on a single standard battery, there's little that it left out of the feature list. It was my first MP3 player I ever had. The buttons also wore out faster perhaps six months, and fast forwarding through podcasts became a slow, frustrating hassle that would often drop out for a second and then skip entirely to the next track.
I used it without the screen for a while (because, at that point I had the interface memorized) and it was only when the screen actually cracked and leaked that I decided to finally throw it in the can and search for a new MP3 player. So it must have been 2006 when I bought this thing. As I recall, the odd shape wasn't exactly pocket friendly - the flat iPods and smaller Sansa Clips fit into a jeans pocket far better than this little, 75% semi-circle-type thing. SanDisk has done better since then.If you're in the market for a cheap MP3 player, I see no reason to buy this item, unless you want the consumer-grade batteries instead of a rechargeable one (though rest assured that the player will, in fair use, probably have a far shorter life than most rechargeable batteries inside of them). It sounded great (even at high MP3 bitrates), was shaped perfectly for my hands and came with a voice recorder and FM radio.
It looks more like an attachment for the Wii than an MP3 player. The Sansa Clip or the Sansa Fuse are both excellent successors to the Sansa legacy, and are just as durable, feature filled, and budget-minded.Still, this is a dang good product, and SanDisk should be proud of themselves for coming up with my MP3 player of choice for two years. It lasted two years before the screen broke. Transferring music through the USB 1.1 interface was slow and boring, and few pieces of software meshed with it well (Windows Media Player is still a bit annoying, and Winamp or Media Monkey are far worse). I listened to more podcasts on that thing than I care to admit.
More headphones broke while wrapped around the neck of this thing than I should ever tell anyone. And lets not forget that I bought the thing in 2006 - the interfaces of 2006 haven't aged well. What a great little thing.
My wife uses it every day and I got it at a great price with fast shipping.
Music is ridiculously easy to load onto it.I don't much care for the earbuds, though. It is straightforward and practical with generous storage space (really, who needs more than 2 gigs of music).
This player is one of the few you will find that actually uses a replaceable battery, and the only one I'd trust the quality of. I've been using this player for more than a week now.
One person even complained about not being able to find the pause button, which is just silly.The player is nothing fancy. I noticed quite a few people complaining about the player's case, the shape, the battery life and the fact that you can't categorize the songs, but I think they're simply upset because they didn't get the super-expensive, needlessly feature-heavy iPod they wanted.
There's nothing wrong with the player, the case, the shape/size, the battery life (been using the same one for a while now) nor the filing system. It fits my more than 150 songs, 192kbps to 320kbps each, with room to spare.
I get far better sound from my Sennheiser DJ headphones.I would recommend this player to anyone who is looking to buy a new one.
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