{"id":9701,"date":"2014-08-15T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T00:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2014-08-15T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T01:03:52","slug":"sandisk-clip-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2014\/08\/sandisk-clip-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"SanDisk Clip Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first MP3 player <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=981\">in 2006<\/a>, a SanDisk Sansa e140. As that one aged, I picked up the SanDisk Sansa Fuze <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1580\">in 2009<\/a>. Recently my poor Sansa Fuze has been having trouble updating the library (takes a long time) and would randomly freeze up. After getting worse over my past few trips, I finally resigned to getting a new player.<\/p>\n<p>As I began looking for players, I was quickly struck by how limited the MP3 player market is these days. I suspect this is due to so many people using their phones for music these days, but that&#8217;s not a great option for me for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Limits to battery life on my phone make a 12 hour flight (or a 3 hour flight, then an 8 hour flight, then navigating a foreign city&#8230;) a bit tricky.<\/li>\n<li>While I do use my phone for runs (yay for running apps) I <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> like using my phone in the gym, because it&#8217;s bulky and I&#8217;m afraid of breaking it.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, my desire for an FM tuner hasn&#8217;t changed, and I&#8217;m quite fond of the range of formats my Fuze supported (flac, ogg, etc).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandisk.com\/products\/music-video-players\/clip-sport\/\">SanDisk Clip Sport MP3 Player<\/a>. Since I&#8217;ve been happy with my SanDisk players throughout the years and the specs pages seemed to meet my needs, I didn&#8217;t hesitate too much about picking it up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SanDisk-Player-Screen-MicroSDHC-SDMX24-008G-G46P\/dp\/B00HCMZ4Z0\/\">for $49.99 on Amazon<\/a>. Obviously I got the one with pink trim.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/082014\/sandisk_clip_sport.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/082014\/sandisk_clip_sport_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I gave the player a spin on my recent trip to Philadelphia. Flight time: 5 hours each way. I&#8217;m happy to report that the battery life was quite good, I forgot to charge it while in Philadelphia but the charge level was still quite high when I turned it on for my flight home.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m very happy with it, but no review would be complete without the details!<\/p>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feels a bit plasticy &#8211; the Fuze had a metal casing<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t figure out how it sorts music in file view, doesn&#8217;t seem alphabetical&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meets my requirements: FM Tuner, multiple formats &#8211; my oggs play fine out of the box, the Fuze required a firmware upgrade<\/li>\n<li>Standard Micro USB connector for charging &#8211; the Fuze had a custom connector<\/li>\n<li>File directory listing option, not just by tags<\/li>\n<li>Mounts via USB mass storage in Linux<\/li>\n<li>Micro SD\/SDHC expansion slot if I need to go beyond 8G<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how it holds up through the abuse I put it through while traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my first MP3 player in 2006, a SanDisk Sansa e140. As that one aged, I picked up the SanDisk Sansa Fuze in 2009. Recently my poor Sansa Fuze has been having trouble updating the library (takes a long time) and would randomly freeze up. After getting worse over my past few trips, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}