Posted: 4/22/2009 4:07:28 PM EDT
Anyone use one...particularly this model? LINK
I had this baby follow me home today from the Tiger Direct store 5 minutes away from me. On a side note, TigerDirect bought out the CompUSA name and it's remaining stock, and their stores are going to be called CompUSA. |
| I bought my wife a Sansa, forget which model, but not the exact one you link to. She really likes it, and after playing with it, I like my Toshiba Gigabeat much better. The Toshiba seems to be easier to navigate, where as her's has a scroll whee. Otherwise, it's great to just drag and drop music onto and has decent battery life. |
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I bought my wife a Sansa, forget which model, but not the exact one you link to. She really likes it, and after playing with it, I like my Toshiba Gigabeat much better. The Toshiba seems to be easier to navigate, where as her's has a scroll whee. Otherwise, it's great to just drag and drop music onto and has decent battery life. Yeah I have a RCA Lyra that's awesome but I would like to take my whole 5 GB collection with me on vacation or long trips. |
My sister had a 5 GB iPod sitting in a drawer but it needs fixing and a firewire port put on my computer. Zunes are nice for sure but I do like the thought of dragging and dropping. Plus I can get this SanDisk and an 8GB card for the price of 2 4GB cards for my Lyra. |
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I've got a 4 gig Sansa, kinda like the one pictured. Got it off woot a while back. use it all the time, no problems at all, love that I can just drag and drop music to it. I got one of the 4gig's for my wife. I really like it. I have tons of MP3's with various tag and folder conventions. It probably figures out the artist, album and song 90% of the time. Drag-and-drop is much nicer than having to install some stupid library software (itunes? give me a break).Very nice. |
| I don't have one of c200 series like you do but I do have an e280. I really like the Sandisk player. I run the ROCKbox firmware on mine. It also works for your model. If you are interested check it out here: ROCKbox Firmware |
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I have a couple Sansas. Great little players. They have a nice interface, are durable and sound pretty good.
I don't like the ones with internal rechargeable batts tho, in fact I fucking HATE that Ipod influenced trend and really wish it weren't so prevalent in the newer gen. players. The AAA ones are much handier for me. For one thing, when your internal batt shits in the middle of mowing the lawn, you're done. Silence. When my AAA (that I use rechargeables in, so the cost is minimal) dies, I reach in pocket and keep on listening with new batt. When your internal battery no longer keeps a decent charge, it's a pain and sometimes very difficult to replace. Mine? Not so much. Buy a new rechargeable pack for $4 and right on trucking. |
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Who told you iPods only work with firewire? a close relative/friend. They were quite incorrect. I think that was only for some of the veeeeery first iPods on the market before they were compatible with Windows Yeah, USB showed up on the Gen 3 iPods in 2003. |
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Who told you iPods only work with firewire? a close relative/friend. They were quite incorrect. I think that was only for some of the veeeeery first iPods on the market before they were compatible with Windows Yeah, USB showed up on the Gen 3 iPods in 2003. It may be one of the veeeery first iPods. It is a first-gen. |
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I'm among the crowd that has an e280.
Pluses - when used with DRM-free files, drag and drop, use as a flash drive, etc. is really nice. I don't watch videos on it, I don't make playlists, etc., so I can't speak to that. Minuses - I'm using mine as a Rhapsody subscription device right now. The navigation is getting a bit laggy - 2-3 seconds skipping songs, 20+ secoonnds laiaig playlists. I don't recal this when I used it as an mp3 only player, but it could be a case of "the grass is always greener" (I'm not thrilled with Rhapsody's software) Other: The internal rechargable has it's pluses and minuses. On the plus side, it lasts a long freakin' time. 10 hours on a full charge, although the battery charge meter pretty much sucks - it'll go from half to dead pretty quick. Judge on on/play time, and you'll be good. |
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I've got one of the Sansa's with the scroll wheel. I had the 4gig version with a 2 year store warranty on it. It took a shit on me and I took it back only to find out that they had just discontinued that model and only had one 16gig version left which was about 60 bucks more. The guy told me to take it to customer service and see if I could just pay the difference on it and get the 16gig.
I wasn't down with that idea but I figured maybe they'd cut some off the price. They gave me the 16gig for no extra-charge. 
So far so good. The interface is easy as pie and adding music is very practical. |
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I have several Sansa's, including the one you linked to. All were bought cheap and refurbished. The only model I have ever had a problem looks like a flash drive, where it plugs directly into the USB port. It's buttons quit working within a week.
The model you are looking at has worked well. ETA: As usual Swingset hits the nail on the head about the battery. |
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I had a 4 gig sansa that I finally destroyed at the gym by sitting in the steam room. The LCD went out. Other than that it worked great.
A few months ago I bought a refurb 8 gig sansa view. Not so happy with the refurb. Mine locks up. It won't advance to the next track and then I can't adjust the volume. I see now why it was returned. Of course, YMMV. Other than that, I like the fact that sansa is recognized as just another removable drive, I can copy, move or delete any files without using any other software (see iTunes). |
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Quoted: I have a couple Sansas. Great little players. They have a nice interface, are durable and sound pretty good. I don't like the ones with internal rechargeable batts tho, in fact I fucking HATE that Ipod influenced trend and really wish it weren't so prevalent in the newer gen. players. The AAA ones are much handier for me. For one thing, when your internal batt shits in the middle of mowing the lawn, you're done. Silence. When my AAA (that I use rechargeables in, so the cost is minimal) dies, I reach in pocket and keep on listening with new batt. When your internal battery no longer keeps a decent charge, it's a pain and sometimes very difficult to replace. Mine? Not so much. Buy a new rechargeable pack for $4 and right on trucking. At least the Sandisk batteries are user replaceable, unscrew the back plate, replace the battery, screw it back on. That said, I've got one of their older AAA models as well, a 1gb my brother got about 5 or 6 years ago, it still works fine. |
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My girlfriend and I have the 8gb models, but mine broke. It's a tough player, but I'm clumsy and tall, and repeated drops onto concrete, asphalt, and tile from 4' or more will break anything eventually. SanDisk sent me a replacement, though, and it works just as well. |
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I've had a few iPods and was fed up with the bullshit that accompanies them. I bought a Sansa 8gb for $49 and change.
Best little MP3 player I've ever had. Holds a charge forever, interfaces well with the USB adapter on my trucks' deck, easy to use and really small. |
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We've got several Sandisk players (4GB Fuze, 2GB and 8GB Clip, and three e250's for the wife and two older boys) and really have no compaints. The ability to increase memory by adding a microSD card is a huge plus. My 4GB Fuze is now a 12GB Fuze for just a few bucks at Radio Shack.
Check out the forums at anythingbutipod.com for info on the Sansa models...and pretty much any other non-Apple mp3 player. |
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I've actually had a few problems with mine. Every so often, if I try to skip ahead or backward to a different song too quickly, it will lock up or reboot. If it locks up, I just leave it set overnight to let the battery drain. I'm also having problems recently with the wheel, but I think it is just getting worn down from use.
My only real issue with it is the proprietary cable. |
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I have one of the early Sansas. It's built like a tank. I know nothing about the new ones. I have an e140 that I bought about 5 years ago. It has been through a lot and has had no problems at all. Gotten wet, range trips, high dust environment, never a hitch. |
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i ordered their 8gb model this morning on the recommendation of another afrcommer.
fucking wierd this would pop up. this one |
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I've actually had a few problems with mine. Every so often, if I try to skip ahead or backward to a different song too quickly, it will lock up or reboot. If it locks up, I just leave it set overnight to let the battery drain. I'm also having problems recently with the wheel, but I think it is just getting worn down from use. My only real issue with it is the proprietary cable. I had an issue with the micro SDHC card I got for it... it didn't want to work. Thankfully my old SD card from my RCA Lyra worked out fine. |
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I had a Sansa that crapped out 2 months after I bought it. Would keep a charge for a couple minutes.
SanDisk's outsourced warranty service SUCKS. They promised me a battery, I called back after 30 days, they said out of stock, called back in 30 days, they said send an email to the rma department, three emails later no response and they hung up on me when I called. The Sansa custom interface cable instead of a standard USB 2.0 is a hassle. My Creative Zen has been going strong for almost a year and made it through a wash cycle unscathed. It has the USB 2.0 connector. The headphones and the audio are superior to the Sansa unit. |
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I had a Sansa that crapped out 2 months after I bought it. Would keep a charge for a couple minutes. SanDisk's outsourced warranty service SUCKS. They promised me a battery, I called back after 30 days, they said out of stock, called back in 30 days, they said send an email to the rma department, three emails later no response and they hung up on me when I called. The Sansa custom interface cable instead of a standard USB 2.0 is a hassle. My Creative Zen has been going strong for almost a year and made it through a wash cycle unscathed. It has the USB 2.0 connector. The headphones and the audio are superior to the Sansa unit. It's funny you should say that, because my first Sansa Clip was a replacement for a defective 3 week old Creative Zen Stone Plus. Battery life was pitiful, and it would shut itself off every hour or so. Sound quality was so-so at best. Comparing stock headphones is a waste of time since they all suck. It's like saying cat crap smells better than dog crap.
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Good purchase, deej.
I have a Sansa e280 and a Fuze 2 GB (currently expanded to 4 GB but soon to be expanded to 18 GB). Bought the e280 when it first came out for $180. The e280 is my regular use mp3 player for the gym; the Fuze gets taken on the road for vacations and business trips. If I lose the Fuze on a trip (and I've lost mp3 players in that manner) I won't be heartbroken. I don't know why people buy iPods ... you pay more and you get less. I had a AAA battery Creative Labs mp3 player that I lost on a flight from RDU to PHL. As swingset pointed out, the AAA mp3 players have their place. I just did a 17 hour flight from PVG - ORD (O'Hare, your neck of the woods) - PHL. For long trips the mp3 players with the internal batteries are inferior because you can't just plug them into the wall socket to recharge them whilst on a plane. I wish I had that Creative Labs unit back. Edit: get some good headphones, the Sansa line has fairly decent sound quality. I use the Shure e2c for traveling and the Audio Technica ATH-A700 for home use. I had a pair of Etymotic Er6is but they got lost along with the Creative Labs unit on the plane. |
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I had the one in the link and the one in the pic. I damaged both, in SanDisks defense I run a lot, in rain, snow, subzero temperatures, and sweat all over the units. Both of the models have had buttons that just stopped working, buttons popped off but the units still worked. |
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It's funny you should say that, because my first Sansa Clip was a replacement for a defective 3 week old Creative Zen Stone Plus. Battery life was pitiful, and it would shut itself off every hour or so. Sound quality was so-so at best. Comparing stock headphones is a waste of time since they all suck. It's like saying cat crap smells better than dog crap.
I had no real beef with the Sansa Mp3 player itself. Their warranty service was my issue. |