Podcasts Listening to radio-show podcasts puts a special requirement on mp3 players and I am looking for a player that will support this use. The problem with many players is that when you turn them off they forget where they were. When you turn them back on, at best you start listening again from the start of the file. This is not so much of a problem for a five-minute song file, but for listening to a two-hour radio program it is extremely annoying. By the way, for this use, memory size is not so important since spoken-word files can be low bit-rate. An interchangeable memory card would be a big plus, however. Can anyone suggest a player that fits my needs? Will the SanDisk Sansa M230 512 MB work? Podcasts Listening to radio-show podcasts puts a special requirement on mp3 players and I am looking for a player that will support this use. The problem with many players is that when... » Read More Podcasts Listening to radio-show podcasts puts a special requirement on mp3 players and I am looking for a player that will support this use. The problem with many players is that when you turn them off they forget where they were. When you turn them back on, at best you start listening again from the start of the file. This is not so much of a problem for a five-minute song file, but for listening to a two-hour radio program it is extremely annoying. By the way, for this use, memory size is not so important since spoken-word files can be low bit-rate. An interchangeable memory card would be a big plus, however. Can anyone suggest a player that fits my needs? Will the SanDisk Sansa M230 512 MB work? « Show Less
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Thanks for the information. It is amazing to me that vendor advertisements never seem to mention this important feature.
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The device records and plays back MP3 files. All files are recorded or playback over the speakers on the player itself via an SD Card. I have recorded from radio to SD cards placed in the player and also placed SD Cards with MP3 files (podcasts, music, etc.) on it. It's biggest drawback is the fast-forward and rewind buttons work very, very poorly for playback. They so bad that they feature doesn't really work.
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I don't use audible?, you can load mp3 audio books and they play just fine. So far the main complaint that I have about this player is the buttons are very sensitive and it's almost required to lock the controls out to listen to the whole story.
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I listened to podcasts and audiobooks. The Sansa units that I have bought have very little gap between tracks, much less than a second, I would say you would notice it only if looking for it.
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don't format! the radio probably isn't broken; you probably just "paused" it. you can tell if there's a square shaped icon under the station ... would be a lot less confusing if they used the standard "||" pause symbol ... hit "|| >" and you should play fine. ALSO, there's a sansa forum out there ... now we know
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THE PLAYERS ARE LEMONS since Nov. 10th 2006 , I have had 5 Sansa m240 Players do the same and fail to re boot. Waiting now for Sandisk to send another replacement.. returned one Sansa m230 that failed and got my money back. The longest any has worked was 4 and a half days... and as little as less than 2 hours.. THEY JUNK.. W.Pierce
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Hey thank you very much for your info. Is there any better MP3 players? Like which ones?Thank you once again!
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Well, I'm 5 months now with two SansaClip players. Dragging mp3 files into both of them from two different Macs, two versions of the operating system: 10.3 and 10.4. It's has worked for me, no problems. One player was left out in hard rain for two nights and I couldn't believe, it still works. I've loaded and unloaded songs on these players numerous times. Never did anything special, just drag-n-drop mp3s into the music folder. Sorry it hasn't worked so easily for others.
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I'm glad you warned me. I notice there are firmware upgrades on their site. But why would I have to upgrade a brand new player? One of them said it was necessary to listen to audible books? I hope not. I may very well get back to you with questions. Thank you again!
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I'm waiting for a 128gb flash player that SOUNDS good, and can be loaded with a standard usb cable, and not requiring some proprietary software (read itunes). I test drove a 64gb ipod touch when it first came out, because my 16gb cowon iaudio7 is too small, but it sounded terrible, admittedly it was a stock set of tunes ripped at a low bit rate, but when I wanted to load up my own max bit rate tunes to it, the geniuses at the apple store couldn't fathom why someone would want to listen to tunes they'd ripped themselves, or how to make it happen. Hopefully someone raises the bar on storage space and sound quality, neither of which should be hard at this point. I wish someone would swing for the fences and do a flash 256gb player. I have to admit, I'm anachronistic, in that I don't want internet access, apps, videos, etc. just a gigantic music player that's not disk based (use it on a motorcycle, drop it constantly on the commute), that sounds fantastic and has great battery life. The more things a device does, the performance of each of those things suffers.
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This sound player requires MP3 files to be copied from a microSD card to internal memory before it will play the sounds. The internal memory is fixed at 2MB, which is enough for about 2 minutes of MP3 files.
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Hello. Sony's webpage for this item does not supply information about paused Podcasts playback functionality, but most devices will standardly resume a Podcast if you close the program and then go back into the same podcast. Usually Podcasts do not resume when you switch between Podcasts.Thank you
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Is there anyone who can answer alpinecow's question? Also, I heard that the Sandisk Sansa will not play chapters in proper order. Is this still the case?
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Despite SANSA advertising differently and apparently also in contrast to earlier versions the newest version with Firmware 3.01.11A does not play audio books in an acceptable manner. You may be able to put them on your player but there is no bookmarking capability so they do not restart where you left off and the fast forward function cannot/will not skip forward more than about 5 minutes and resume play. Whats worse is the player says in its digital readout it is starting where you left off but just goes back to the beginning anyway. I contacted Sansa support about this and their response was the e280 and other players in this series weren't meant to do books but I could buy a Sansa View and it would work correctly. In my opinion, they disabled what was a functioning player with the new firmware because they brought out the new and more expensive Sansa View. If you really want this for books it isn't the right player. I am sending mine back because I bought it for the same reason.
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I'm going to ask you one more question if you don't mind. If I just want the best player I can find to listen to music and don't care about lists, album art, interfaces or anything else. I just want to put my songs on the player and listen to them in the order they come up, which do you recommend? (Can you tell I'm an old lady and just love to listen to music? LOL!) All that matters to me is good sound, ease of putting songs on the player, number of songs I can add to the player and how long it will play music on one charge. Even the Cowan 160 GB player sounds interesting to me.
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You should definitely go with the Zen Nano, which I also own. Don't forget that with the Zen you can listen to FM stations, record from any radio source. I am sure you have some old tapes you wish to put on CD. Well the Zen Nano will get that done in a flash. Besides, the Zen can also be used as a memory drive. You can save your papers and presentations on it. Always leave a few bites avalaible for this purpose. You can save picture files on it as well. This player does so much than the Ipods and the price is beneath forgivable. Finally, aren't the Ipods too popular? Once you show up with the headphone people already know you're carrying an Ipod. I just hate that. You should definitely go with the Zen Nano, which I also own. Don't forget that with the Zen you can listen to FM stations, record from any radio source. I am sure you have some old tapes you wish to put on CD. Well the Zen Nano will get that done in a flash. Besides, the Zen can also be used as a memory drive. You can save your papers and presentations on it. Always leave a few bites avalaible for this purpose. You can save picture files on it as well. This player does so much than the Ipods and the price is beneath forgivable. Finally, aren't the Ipods too popular? Once you show up with... » Read More You should definitely go with the Zen Nano, which I also own. Don't forget that with the Zen you can listen to FM stations, record from any radio source. I am sure you have some old tapes you wish to put on CD. Well the Zen Nano will get that done in a flash. Besides, the Zen can also be used as a memory drive. You can save your papers and presentations on it. Always leave a few bites avalaible for this purpose. You can save picture files on it as well. This player does so much than the Ipods and the price is beneath forgivable. Finally, aren't the Ipods too popular? Once you show up with the headphone people already know you're carrying an Ipod. I just hate that. « Show Less
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I don't know. I have far more songs than will fit on my clip, so I reformat my clip often and copy songs onto it as I feel. I long for the days of the Sansa View, a larger "Man's" mp3 player. The clip is nice, but it is too small and is for dainty fingers.