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Recently got the 8GB at Walmart for $50+tax on clearance. Battery seems to last forever, sound quality is passable, nothing great. THROW AWAY THE EARBUDS IT COMES WITH! I thought some of my MP3's got corrupted during the transfer because the earbuds were so bad.

Unfortunately, there are HUGE differences in volume levels between my MP3 files which were never apparent on my old "Creative Zen Micro Photo". You'll turn up the volume on a quiet song on this thing and the next song will blow your eardrums... I'm having to go through and redo the volume levels on my entire MP3 collection in order to be able to use this.

Damn, I just bought the 1G for $15

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Head-fi.com, and anythingbutipod.com would disagree with your analysis of the sound quality of the Clip.

yeah #1, Your advertising your stupidity. you're a dumbass that can't tell sound quality from your blathering mouth. are you listening to your lossy mp3s? or FLACS?

"sound quality is passable" pfft.

from amazon.com review:

reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-9968448-49.html

"Sound quality. Not only does this support MP3, OGG, FLAC (the lossless format of choice) WMV, secure WMA, podscasts, & Audible files, it plays them with perfection. Now this is objective, not a "whatever ***I*** buy and review sounds better than what you have" crap. The sound quality is scientifically top notch. I don't know if the URL I put in this review will get killed, but go to the reviews section on cnet.com or Google the article entitled "Audiophile MP3 players, by the numbers."

Let me summarize the article: they found out that Sandisk *did* put an expensive sound processor in this one (apparently unlike the other Sandisks) and used actual scientific hardware measuring frequency response deviation, and signal to noise ratios, etc. the SanDisk Clip beat out everything that Creative, Apple (iPod), Insignia, Sony, Microsoft (Zune) makes.

best sound quality mp3 ever and you call it passable...

why bother with such small amount of space, no deal.

These work great for exercise. I know, that's something most of you uber-geeks have no idea of, but with a set of good earphones (check out the Sennheisers that have the neck lanyard, for $20, at Newegg), you could spend hours on the aerobic machine of your choice.

Not everyone has to have their entire collection of Barry Manilow with them all the time, #5!

this is a nice little mp3 unit for working out and jogging.

I concur I had one of these and the sound quality is superb better than Ipod and creative zen nano and my sandisk fuzo and e280

Got my kids these and they are perfect! Photos, MP3 and FM tuner.

The reason to bother with such a small capacity is you don't really need more for most uses. That's hours of music, you can swap music around when you plug it in to recharge but mostly it's a matter of looking at it as a very nice for the price, disposible player that, since it is inexpensive, you don't mind so much wearing on your sleeve when you jog or leaving in plain view in your parked car, or wherever it's subject to risks.

I have the same 8GB model from Walmart. Bought new earphones immediately. Big difference in sound vs. MP3 quality. I didn't realize I could copy flac onto this thing. Sansa software for importing music sucks as indexing is same as drag and drop as external drive. Many lockups, incomplete formats using Windows Vista.

It gets the job done for the price.

Got two of these, rockboxed and perfect for the gym.

yeah #1, Your advertising your stupidity. you're a dumbass that can't tell sound quality from your blathering mouth. are you listening to your lossy mp3s? or FLACS?

"sound quality is passable" pfft.

from amazon.com review:

reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-9968448-49.html

"Sound quality. Not only does this support MP3, OGG, FLAC (the lossless format of choice) WMV, secure WMA, podscasts, & Audible files, it plays them with perfection. Now this is objective, not a "whatever ***I*** buy and review sounds better than what you have" crap. The sound quality is scientifically top notch. I don't know if the URL I put in this review will get killed, but go to the reviews section on cnet.com or Google the article entitled "Audiophile MP3 players, by the numbers."

Let me summarize the article: they found out that Sandisk *did* put an expensive sound processor in this one (apparently unlike the other Sandisks) and used actual scientific hardware measuring frequency response deviation, and signal to noise ratios, etc. the SanDisk Clip beat out everything that Creative, Apple (iPod), Insignia, Sony, Microsoft (Zune) makes.

best sound quality mp3 ever and you call it passable...

Post it again, #4/#13...not sure the stupidity has been advertised enough.

i didn't know it's rockboxable.

^ It's not yet, current pre-release rockbox isn't finished and IIRC doesn't support recording or USB yet. It's good to see they are making progress though, if you want to run rockbox you are better off buying now because if they change the electronics then development will have to fork and take more time for the new hardware revision.

I wouldn't worry too much about it though, the player's firmware is suited for what it can do. The capacity isn't high enough for very high bitrate files, the screen isn't suitable for playing video games on it nor are the tiny buttons and there's no video playback at all, so,