SanDisk Sansa m230 512 MB MP3 Player (Blue)
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Customer Review: Say hello to my little friend
Summary: 5 Stars
I am really happy with my Sansa. I have had mine now for about a month and it's already taken a beating and it keeps on going. It's VERY durable.
I use it daily for my workouts, and the armband that is included is perfect for people who are working out or performing an activity.
I can fit about 90 songs in .mp3 format onto the unit, and it does have a good battery life.
I am very happy with this .mp3 player and couldn't have made a better choice.
Pros:
512 MB of room for songs, or about 90 .mp3s
Decent earbuds, I have no problem with mine.
Small and convenient, the design of it makes very little difference.
Easy to understand and operate.
Sleep timer for automatic shutoff.
Blue backlight- very weak, but it works.
FM tuner, again, I have had no problems with signal strength and have had great results with that feature.
Armband included, great for active people.
Compatible with real player- so I can use one program for listening to music and downloading music onto my sansa.
Generally, I love my sansa. I use it when I go grocery shopping, when I go to the mall, when I go gambling, or when I am absolutely bored. I love it and highly recommend it to anyone who is on the market for an inexpensive and reliable .mp3 player. The sansa is great!
Cons:
It's not an iPod
Customer Review: Excellent MP3 Player
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking for a cheap, reliable, and decent-good quality MP3 player to listen to while going to and from classes. This one exceeds my expectations and requirements.
I highly recommened it.
It has a 5 band EQ that you can actually customize (you don't have to just use those prebuilt things ie. pop, rock, jazz..)
The menu is pretty nice, you can play by artist, genre, album, or all songs.
One feature its lacking is the ability to queue songs, and to create playlists on the go.
Battery life is very good, I've had the player for 3-4 months now, and I'm only on my second battery.
Sound quality is great, and it has a good range of volume. It has always been able to get as loud as I wanted/needed it to.
It comes with a protective case, if you want to use it.
The FM tuner is not the greatest... Don't expect to be able to pick up stations that are lacking a strong signal.
Another thing is it sometimes does a faint pop or lag in the song when you go into the menu. Don't let this worry you... its not very loud.
I transfer music to the player in Windows XP Pro, and Ubuntu Linux. You use it just like you would any other flash drive, and can be accessible using any file browser (no special software needed).
Overall, I say this is an excellent mp3 player, and I highly recommend it.
Customer Review: Great little player, only a few flaws
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok, I use this thing nearly every day. I love it minus a couple flaws which I'll explain.
1. If you like podcasts and ever wanna fastforward or rewind them, this Sansa has a tendency to skip to the next or previous track after you've been holding rewind or fastforward for a couple minutes worth of MP3. In other words, it fastforwards a couple minutes then auto skips to the next track so it's fustrating if you listened to 20 minutes of something already and wanna jump to that spot on the track.
2. It doesn't let you delete tracks from the Sansa, you have to plug it in the computer to delete tracks.
3. 512 megs isn't quite enough for me, but it works.
4. It has a funny way of organizing tracks. It auto groups things by the same artist, which is ok, but the display will show the entire artist, album title, song title bla bla bla like 20 feet long and slowly scroll past so if you're driving in your car, you have to wait to see what's playing or what's next.
5. The lighted display doesn't stay on long sometimes. This again is a pain if you're driving at night and have to wait for the title to scroll slowly while the light goes out after 4 or 5 seconds.
For the most part these issues could be addressed by firmware updates from Sansa, but I don't know how much they listen to customers. I've suggested they change some things and hopefully they do.
Customer Review: Good enough for me
Summary: 4 Stars
I have had this for a year or two, and I am quite satisfied. I don't have a large number of songs to listen to (although there are about 17 of them that I am trying to get), so the memory amount is plenty. The function in which, if the music is paused or stopped, and no buttons are pushed for 30 seconds, it automatically shuts off, can be annoying sometimes if I pause my music to have a conversation with someone and it turns off during that time. However, it has saved my battery power a few times.
Pros:
--> Runs on 1 AAA battery
--> Comes with everything necessary to use it (except the battery)
--> Cheaper than iPods
--> Easier to put songs on it than on an iPod
Can be transferred from Windows Media Player
Or directly by moving the music file to the file folder
--> Smaller than iPod in terms of length and width
--> About the same length as iPod nano, and still smaller in width
Cons:
--> Very limited memory (512 MB), though there is another one with 2 GB
--> Thicker than an iPod
--> You might want a different pair of headphones, I don't like the ones it came with
--> No features other than music
--> Annoying auto-shut down (see above)
I would recommend this to anyone who likes listening to music while traveling, but does not have a huge number of songs they need to put on it.
Customer Review: Best $30 I've spent in a LONG time!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd been hesitant to buy an mp3 player for a while now due to the expense, so I was more than delighted to discover the SanDisk Sansa M230. Seeing that it had received good reviews here and on epinions.com, I decided to give it a try. Just got it two days ago, and I must say that it's the best 30 bucks I've spent in a long time. Part mp3 player, part radio, part media storage device, and part voice recorder rolled together into one sleek package. Intuitive as hell, too. I haven't read the instruction booklet yet. Anyone with any experience with any kind of digital media device will be wheeling around the Sansa's menu in no time.
Complaints about the organization of music files are completely unfounded. You have the option to play tunes by Artist, Album, Genre, Song, or Playlist. I had hoped to use my personal headphones with the device after reading some other reviewers' comments, but have found that avenue to completely unnecessary. Plus, I work in the middle of nowhere, and yet the radio signals for most stations came through loud and clear.
Its 512MB storage is more than enough for my needs. When I'm going out for a quick jog or blade, it's no problem to just drag and drop the songs I need into the Sansa and away I go. A carrying case and arm band came included, so there was no extra expense there. So far, I'm loving this little player.