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I read all of the reviews and thought the Sansa Clip+ sounded perfect. Small, lightweight, with a clip for when I exercise. I had lost my 4gb IRiver Clix, which I liked. With the Clip, I upgraded to 8gb. The color screen was not important to me, which the IRiver had. No big deal. I knew that when I purchased the Clip and I had no intention of watching video or displaying photos.

Here is what I like better about the Clip than the IRiver. I like the clip. Small item, but it is great to put on and not have to have it in my pocket or a special armband and case. It uses a normal USB cable, so I don’t have to go looking for a specialized cable. That is important to me. And it has a much bigger storage capacity, plus the ability to add a card. All good and all better than the IRiver.

Overall, though, after using the Clip, I am very disappointed.

The sound quality is not bad, but the IRiver’s is better.

You can create spacial adjustments than cannot be done on the Clix. No big deal, but another factor in the sound quality.

What drives me crazy is that the Clip has no visible clock. I don’t like to wear a watch. I will use my mp3 player when I am running or walking to give myself an approximate time I have been exercising. Or to see if I need to head home. The clock is visible on the IRiver’s play screen. On the Clip, you have to press the home button, scroll up to settings, click that, scroll up to date and time, click that, scroll up to the time. Every other mp3 player I’ve used has a clock (I’ve used an IPod, too). I simply could not believe you could not see the time so I called Sansa and I was right. You also cannot just open the settings with the time and leave the clock there. When the backlight goes off, it defaults back to the music. This might sound like a small thing, but it is a big annoyance to me.

The second thing is that you cannot scroll backwards from the beginning of a song to the end of the previous one. Sometimes I listen to audio books and I don’t always remember if I finished the chapter. So I go to the next chapter and scroll back a minute or two. On the Clip, not possible, which it is on the IRiver. You have to go all the way back to the previous song and fast forward. I checked with Sansa and they agreed that you could not do this.

Which brings me to the third thing. You cannot change between time elapsed and remaining time. So, even with the previous annoyance, if you were fast forwarding, you knew when to stop. Here you have to guess by the status bar and it is not accurate. I did this five times this afternoon, which is what finally prompted me to write the review. I kept missing the end and then going to the next one, and missing it again. If I could have either scrolled back or seen the elapsed time, this would not have been such a big deal. Again, Sansa agreed.

Last, you cannot control the scroll speed–again as you can with the IRiver. There you can choose how fast it goes. With the Clip, it starts slow and then goes fast, which is not a bad thing. But if you are trying to get towards the end of a song or story, you have to lift your finger, put it down over and over.

These might like small annoyances, but that is what they are to me–annoyances. With all of the technology, I don’t understand why Sansa could not have even put a clock on the play screen.

If you want a small, basic player with a good capacity and a clip, and you do not mind the annoyances I mentioned, go ahead and buy it. I threw out the packaging, so I’m going to sell mine on Ebay and get another IRiver.

(And in case anyone is curious, I don’t work for IRiver, have stock in the company, or have any other interest in it, except I like their players.)

Overall, the Clip was a big disappointment.

Rating: 2 / 5

When reading this review, keep in mind that I have never actually used this product. This review is simply to warn potential buyers about a flaw that I wish I had known about before ordering this product. This issue may or may not be important to those thinking about purchasing a clip+. One reviewer mentioned the pitch/speed problem that has plagued a few of Sansa’s products over the past few years. He said that this problem has been fixed in the clip+, but although the problem may have been lessened, as far as I know it does still exist. The clip+ still plays slower and at a lower pitch than it should. In fact, Sansa has released a statement saying that they WILL NOT be releasing any firmware in the future to fix this problem. It is very slight (between 19 and 20 cents, or 0.247%, if that means anything to any of you), but if you are a musician who might want to play along with your clip +, or if you think this might detract from your listening enjoyment, you may want to look elsewhere for an mp3 player. There is a workaround. You can encode your music files at 48k instead of the usual 44.1k, and they will then play at the correct speed/pitch. But most people don’t want to have to deal with such issues, even if they do know how to change such settings on their encoding program. This player does have quite an impressive feature set for its price. But if you were wondering what the catch is, well, there it is. Pretty ridiculous if you think about it. If it were a cassette tape player, I could understand. But this is a digital music player using much more modern, supposedly superior, technology. Most people will not notice or care. I just think people should know the whole truth before buying this product.
Rating: 1 / 5