A Dandy Little Unit

I bought the SanDick Sansa Clip because I was having difficulties with my older SanDisk MP3 Player on my service (Rhapsody) I did not want to buy another SanDisk product. However this unit (SanDisk Sansa Clip) was reccommended by Rhapsody and has proven to be an excellent choice. The only thing I am not wild about are the ear buds, Too Big. I have a set of JVC Ear buds that I use and everything is great!

Poor quality, difficult controls, hard to read display

Pros
- Looks great. Size is ok, clip worked ok for me.
- Recording feature is also great.
- I thought the sound was good as well.

Cons
- Won't hold a charge (after 1 month).
- Won't charge at all (after 3 months).
- I cannot read the display unless I am in a dark room.
- Controls are slightly awkward. Power is a little hard to do, volume is too easy. You can't pick it up without accidentally clicking something.
Menu system is odd. I am used to something than can browse like a file system as well. It doesn't work that way for this - it is hard to find what I wanted to play.

Too late to return this. I'm throwing it away.

very pleased

I have no problems at all after 4 weeks of ownership. There are 488 songs on it, fidelity is good, not great (but then good was what I was expecting), the published time between charges of 15 hours seem correct, and the FM tuner works well. I loaded it up by simply dragging and dropping CD albums...what could be easier? I use the device to play through the MP3 port in my car (via a cable I bought at Radio Shack), while charging with the automobile charger I bought at Amazon. Playing through the car stereo system is when you notice that the sound quality is good, not great. However, with AM, FM, XM, and CD available in the car, I'm not using the MP3 player that much.