Got one for my son.

#5, 10, 11, 14 thanks for the useful info!

Great player, good price, #2 is an rodeo cowboy.

I have a couple of these and they are great. They put iPod the iPod shuffle to shame.

Regarding sound quality and MP3, people who aren't deaf know there are shades of gray, that the fact is a well encoded high bitrate MP3 on a good player sounds better than a FLAC on a poor player... not even considering the crappy earphones they include, I'm talking about sound quality driving decent cans too.

On that note the main downside of the Clip is the marginal quality earbuds but a really good set will run more than $25 by themselves so it's hard to knock virtually free earbuds that are included.

Further, most people couldn't pick out an MP3 at over ~192kbps avg. VBR on a portable player anyway, they "think" they know something intelligent but when it comes time to consistently double-blind identify the MP3, the theory falls through that MP3's lossy compression matters as much as several other factors.

I got a 1Gb refurb. model and love it! It was cheap enough not to worry about breaking or loosing it, and the quality and features are great for the price ($15). Too bad it doesn't have a microSD slot. That would be an ultimate MP3 player!

I have the 1gb model and it's great! the only downside is that (and may be true for the ipod also, I don't know)if you sweat a lot like me when running, be careful not 2 get this wet, otherwise the sound gets choppy. Eventually it goes back to it's normal state, but just as an FYI.

Other than that, this in my opinion is better than the ipod for the gym, since it has radio capability built in and it's very convenient when trying to listen to the tv at the gym (when the sound is sent over radio frequency like many gyms do).

#9, a little ironic that your name is natty_ice, a relatively cheap beer

sirkpp: good catch lol

Have had two other Sandisk models. Both crapped out after a week and had to return them. The display would just stop working. Reviews seem better on these though.