This latest incarnation of Sandisk’s Sansa Clip adds a full colour screen to our favourite budget MP3 player. Below it are six buttons for navigation and selection. There are volume buttons on the side and a power and locking key at the top. The whole thing measures just 55x33x11mm, including the sturdy plastic clip on the back, which is particularly handy if you want to use it while running. A microSDHC slot allows you to add up to 32GB more audio content to the Clip Zip’s built-in 8GB capacity. The colour display has a range of icons for the Clip Zip’s key features. The music menu allows you to shuffle all tracks or view them by album, artist, genre or playlist. You can use the menus to add individual songs to a quick playlist but there’s no handy iPod-style interface for adding multiple tracks. Other menus provide access to the player’s FM radio, audiobooks and podcasts, voice recorder, a file manager to browse an inserted SD card, a stopwatch with a lap timer and logging functions and a settings menu. Track order for standard audio files is determined by the track number tag, so if you have these right albums or MP3 format audio books will play in the right sequence. The Clip Zip supports Amazon’s proprietary Audible audiobook format, as well as a wide range of audio file types including OGG, 16-bit FLAC, WMA, Protected WMA and AAC. The player has a microUSB port and supports MSC mode for easy transfers from various popular audio programs including Windows Media Player, or you can set it to just mount as a disk in Windows and drag and drop your tunes. The supplied earbuds are much what you’d expect to get free with an MP3 player. They’re comfortable to wear, but don’t feel very secure. Music through the supplied pair sounded a bit fuzzy, but once we’d switched to our own headphones, we got to appreciate our music properly. The Clip Zip’s 16-bit DAC outputs clean, accurate sound. However, it’s worth noting that if you set your region as Europe, the MP3 player will apply a volume limiter that makes it so quiet as to barely to drown out the background noise of our office, let alone output music loud enough to be clearly audible over the sound of a tube train or a gym’s music system. Fortunately, setting your region as Rest of the World unlocks the Clip Zip’s high volume mode. With the volume unlocked, we found that some of our louder tracks sounded harsh and slightly distorted at the very highest volumes. That said, the volumes in question were loud enough to be physically painful to listen to. The Clip Zip supports ReplayGain volume profiles, so if you have the tag set correctly (using a music program such as foobar2000) your tracks will play at similar volumes. We were somewhat disappointed by the battery, which lasted around 11 hours in our tests at a moderate listening volume, making it unsuitable for extended journeys if charging isn’t an option.Read full review
could not do anything with this till I ordered cables, no manual, had to down load the manual off the internet to find out how to load music. it is not just a drag and drop music loader. one good thing it is easy to delete all the crap music that comes on this device. radio works well with any local strong station, good device to hook up to my car and any radio .... down loaded music of choice and now I have something to listen to...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This is a very cheap, portable mp3 player! The space is decent if your music collection is small. It has a micro sd card slot, which means you can buy this mp3 player, a 32gb micro sd card and BAM!! 36gbs of space! You can also make more use out of it buy installing the free Rockbox Firmware ( http://www.rockbox.com ) and you can have games, better sound quality, and even the Doom Game! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game) ) The buttons aren't too bad, the battery life is decent, screen is small, but big enough for reading track info and seeing album art. I highly recommend this player to anyone that is looking for a cheap and affordable good quality media player. This is NOT a china rip-off, clone!
Got it to replace my well-used Sansa Clip+ (battery is worn out due to it's age). Basically it's the same thing except reworked UI (don't like it, but using rockbox anyways, so it doesn't matter for me), more robust clip (that's good), and (pitty) slower internal flash memory (according to forums it's an exception, not the rule). Great player for its size and one of the best on the market for listening audiobooks (99% of my usage profile).
i bought this sansa clip zip as i didnt want to spend too much on media players like sony. but when i got it, i was in a real surprise. i never compromise on my music quality and this player didnt let me down at all. powerful sound, great eqs, doesn't lag and easy to use, m not a fan of clip thing in the back but it doesn't come in way and is handy, micro usb and micro sd card slot are also handy. very good value for money.
You know, it is interesting that neither SanDisk or reviewers make note of the ability of this units Radio features. It does provide station I.D. and a scrolling description of what song is playing, and of course the ability to record from the radio (this part has always been true). Refurbished units usually have nothing wrong at all and are hard to tell from new. I have had a love affair with these and have bought many to gift. Personally I have never had a Sansa clip go bad on me. Sometimes a hard reset needed to be done, but that is a very rare problem. With the addition of a 32 gig card these little players can play so many song it is numbing. The E book reader function, one can speed it up and Finish a book faster, now that IS cool The ear buds are not bad, but do yourself a favor, try them with a great head set of your choice and be ready for a "WOW" moment! Remember there is a equalizer with a custom setting if you want a tailored soundRead full review
I bought one of these SanDisk players about eight years ago the 260e. It still works though it is no longer supported...so I figured I would try this one exclusively for the gym. I do not want to chance dropping my phone, just so I can have music and with the clip on the side there is little chance it will fall. I have some Klipsch earbuds and the sound is as good as I need. Does everything I need it to do, charges fast through a usb, holds a charge, easy to add music.... even has a radio.
This little player is amazing. Much smaller than I expected but full featured with great sound. The FM radio works surprisingly well. The menus are very easy to navigate, and the display is completely clear. I am completely satisfied with this item - a great bargain.
Works perfectly with Rockbox, a feature rich, Open Source, replacement firmware. Even after 15-ish years, this is still the best way to listen to podcasts.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I was pleasantly surprised with this cute & tiny little SanDisk. It was meant to be a gift though I liked it so much I had to keep it. The size makes it perfect for clipping on your clothes, pockets or hat and it stays in place nicely. The quality is much better than one might expect for a refurbished player and it fits a suitable amount of songs and ebooks for a weekend trip but it is not for a large collection. Batter life is average so keep the usb handy. The earbuds are generic and a bit fat for my ears but they work and work well. I will say the radio is excellent and I get better reception with this little guy than I do in my truck or on any other portable device. Recordings play back easily and have been good quality so far too. It truly is a great buy for the money.
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